An old friend and colleague from my time in the Suzuki Company Of Toga, Toshihisa Nishikibe said to me once that the true goal of any good artistic practice is freedom. How do we free our voices? Free… more

During the 1948 summer session at Black Mountain College, John Cage presented a series of performances of music by Erik Satie. In order to contextualize what was then considered radically avant-garde… more

I recently had a conversation with someone that was the kind of conversation I don’t have often enough. This person was a relative stranger. I don’t want to go into specific detail about the… more

Pain is weakness leaving your body. For many years I’ve thought the source of this adage was the monks of the Shaolin Temple where Kung-Fu was born and became the root of much of what we call… more

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Here we go again. So much of the theater is about repetition. In this way it reflects the cycles of life: seasons, days, the functions of the body and mind. Repetition brings our attention to the… more

PART 3.(If you haven't read Part 1 go read it here. Part 2 is here.) When SITI launched our new production paradigm Work/Space we decided that we would begin by focusing on three productions, one by… more

As I post this on Wednesday, October 4th, I am in Purchase, New York, where in two days, on Friday, October 6th, we will present the world premiere of SITI Company’s Hanjo at The Performing Arts… more

Hanjo is a project that is very close to both my heart and my brain. It is an exciting production to me on so many levels that it is hard to know how to start expressing myself about it. And although… more

Are you successful?  Do you feel successful?  What does success even mean to you?  Do these questions feel familiar to you? Does it seem like I’m about to try and sell you something? The question… more

It occurs to me that there is nothing inherently valuable about authenticity.  I recently attended a screening of City Of Gold; the excellent documentary about Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan… more

SITI Alum Selena Vela is starting a web-thing and she did an interview with me on it. Here are a couple of excepts: Theatre is inherently dynamic. That’s why its ephemerality is not a bug. It’s a… more

People sometimes wonder why we are called the SITI Company. What is SITI?  When we originally came together in 1993, we called ourselves the Saratoga International Theater Institute. And the… more

SITI Company has launched SITI Work/Space! What does that mean? 23 years into our life as a theater ensemble SITI Company has begun working in a new way. I have been trying to think of how to describe… more

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