When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.