I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

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 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.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

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