Staging cancer: facing the ordeal of his life, a director embraces all things theatrical. (First Person).(Column)

Each spring I offer the graduating directing students at the North Carolina School of the Arts the following thought: The theatre is a fiercely competitive profession, and not all of you will be able to make a living in it. That doesn't mean, however, that you should think you wasted your time in the four years you've spent training here, for you've learned something of incomparable worth: how to think analytically while responding to life imaginatively.

A few years back I was diagnosed with throat cancer, and I was forced to confront my little homily on art's applicability to ...

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