The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.

This is why you hire professionals to do this,

To make this season feasible, I've got to go out and raise another $300,000 to $400,000.

The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010.

part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.

We have to be careful of how we interact, and she gets blamed for all kinds of decisions I make, ... I think it's easier to blame her than me.

For me the challenge is to make sure the shows are good this year and to not burn out,

Obviously at first, there were a lot of people who were worried about, 'Am I gonna have a job?'