Tag: Terrence McNally
Composer Jake Heggie Brings “Moby Dick” to LA Opera
"To really give yourself over to that world is a really big commitment. I read it twice through before we started writing. All the chapters that irritated me at the beginning are now my favorites—those side chapters not involved in the plot.”
Jake Heggie’s Opera “Dead Man Walking” Comes to Santa Monica
"We are all capable of enormous good and enormous evil. Does repeating the worst behavior of a criminal and putting that onto them solve anything? Does that make us better? Who has all the answers?”
Playwright Terrence McNally Talks about Taking Risks, L.A. Theater, and the...
The artist Michaelangelo said, “The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low...