In September, my new book, The Art of Resonance, will be published by Methuen/Bloomsbury. This past May I spent several days in a recording studio in London speaking the book into audio existence for… more

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.“ John Muir The DNA of the theater is human connection.  Both creating and… more

As a young director during the 1970’s, I occasionally, surreptitiously followed Robert Wilson on the streets of New York City. I am pretty sure that he did not know that I was following him. To me,… more

I first encountered director Andrei Serban and composer Elizabeth Swados’ interpretation of Euripides’ classic drama The Trojan Women in 1975 and, at the time, the production felt both ancient and… more

"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation, rather than share it." Amanda Gorman

I graduated from Bard College in 1974 and moved to New York City which, in those days, was still affordable.  More than anything in the world I wanted to be a theater director. That was my plan,… more