Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

I'm 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.