A Conversation with Ethan Heard

On directing Pacific Overtures, Sunday in the Park with George, and more

Director Ethan Heard has spent much of his career drawn to questions of form under pressure: how classic works behave when their assumptions, their scale, their histories are tested. That sensibility was vividly on display in his 2023 production of Pacific Overtures at Signature Theatre, which foregrounded questions of power, perspective, and the long a…