If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run..

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, someti….

Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, a….

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition….

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late brea….

The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and ….

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-div….

Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music a….

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium..

I really enjoy fusing text and music..

Who can I marry? Where can I live? What kind of career can I achieve? These are just some of the stories breaking with Anthem-like implications. And ….

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the mu….

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem..

Typically, among the audience members joining the actors, the director, Ann Ciccolella and myself, about half of these theater goers have read the no….

I collaborated with a brilliant young sound designer named Anthony Mattana, who enriched the sound of the total production with vocal effects, percus….

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had hea….

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one was doing this in the late 1970s, when….

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage..

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful..

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the j….

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories..