"I am filled with gratitude to all of you, and to the wonderful City of Brotherly Love, for welcoming me and giving me this opportunity which even many successful, lifelong theatre professionals never get: the chance to really do justice to these peerless scripts; to bring them to life on the stage, swept clean of four centuries' accumulation of dust and rust; to reveal in full light all the magic and power that Shakespeare imbued them with, as bright and fresh and glorious as on the first day they opened at the Globe," Khan wrote. "It has been a great honor and a privilege."