Hello everyone, Anne gave me an amazing note a few days ago with a sentiment I'd like to share.  She reminded me that, even in the midst of this tragic story, I can be open to experience joy… more

Today saw our first preview performance of Persians.Working on plays at the Getty, we are faced in effect with two missions. One is that we are charged with honoring the play as an artifact. An object… more

Invited Dress rehearsal from 8pm. We did it! Learned a lot more about our “Persians” performing in front of some 100 audience. Thank you to people who came.   10:02pm I saw some Getty staff… more

It is the last day of the fifth week for rehearsals of Persians. Its now that we start to recognize that we could be the fifth Month, and only have just begun to plumb the depths of this magnificent… more

We are in tech! When did this happen? How did we get here?Time has been incredibly slippery these last few weeks.  It feels, at moments, like we are on a runaway train...it feels possible that we… more

Monday, August 18; the first day of our 5th week here @Getty Villa. From today, we’ve got into the new schedule from 1pm to 9pm so we can have more night time at the outside theatre.We engaged in… more

Tuesday of week 5. The process of staging our play and the process of tech-ing it have intersected. Like a snake eating its tail, today we went back to working on the beginning of the play while not… more

Persians Diary for Wednesday August 12, 2014 Getty Villa

This post was originally sent on 8/1/14 to the company in rehearsal at the Getty Villa, while I was in Shanghai, China From: The SITI foreign correspondence desk:

Well, first things first.  You know today was Darron's birthday.  Mine was Friday. "Back in the day" D and I used to host a shared b'day bash every year with our friend and colleague/board members… more

original entry July 24, 2014 Day Three: It's been a long road.

It's a hot, sunny Sunday morning here in LA.  My favorite kind of morning...just me, my dog and a cup of extra strong coffee. Yesterday marked the end of our third week of Persians rehearsals at the… more

So much of what we do is about building routines. Of course we have “routines” that we perform on stage, but more importantly at this point in the process are the countless routines that evolve… more

At the last part of the rehearsal, we experimented the entrance of Messenger. With Emily’s brilliant idea, we ran around holding the edge of huge fabric which is hung from the top of balcony.… more

Just last night I was doing some investigation into the whens and whichones of the Marathon battle, and the Thermopolae battle, and the Salamis battle  (Think of the new movie The 300).  It's really… more

Now week two and rain at night, so strange – – – u – u – u –