Theater is the art by which human beings make human action worth watching
“People need theater” is the brave – and to my mind, absolutely true – opening to Paul Woodruff’s new book, The Necessity of Theater. I’ve yet to read it, but much in the New York Times review of the book is worthy of note on this blog.
Woodruff’s primary claim, though hardly new (hell, it dates back to Aristotle), is that theater, by promoting empathy, provides the essential underpinning of community. In fact, he says that … Read More >
