To Zoom or Not to Zoom?
Over the past fifteen months, SITI Company’s brilliant administrative leadership found the necessary funds to allow SITI Company actors and designers to engage in what we call Work/Space, which are… more
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The Art of Resonance.
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
Where Do I Leave Off and Where Do You Begin?
“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
The Tentpoles of Our Future
I travelled from New York to London on March 11, 2020 carrying a small suitcase and expecting to stay for one week with my wife Rena. Now it is mid-August and I am still in the UK with no idea about… more
Don’t Miss It
All philosophical problems are linguistic confusion - Ludwig Wittgenstein Some years ago, my long time friend and SITI Company member Leon described an idea for a book he wanted to make. It was a… more
The Illusion of Control
But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the… more
The Waltz of Control and Letting Go
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
Poetry as a Catalyst for Sense and Sensation
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
Construction, Re-Construction and Deconstruction
"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation, rather than share it." Amanda Gorman