pbThe Tony Awardb-bwinning director gathers memories of people, productions, and problems surmounted from his fifty-year career in this one-of-a-kind how-to handbook.b brWhat do directors idoi Jack O'Brien, the winner of Tony and Drama Desk Awards and the former artistic director of San Diego's historic Old Globe theatre, describes it like this You stand before a situation in which something is presented to you. You're afforded a challenge. Like catching an enormous ball. And you respond. You come up with a vision of some kind. That is, if you respond to the material at all, and one must, or it's doomed. You sort of feel that since you relate to the material at hand, you might as well try to be helpful. pIn iJack in the Boxi, O'Brien's follow-up to his memoir iJack Be Nimblei, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others, a