Essential to Being Human
In trying economic times, people tend to view theatre as the "luxury" that needs to go. On the contrary. Especially in hard times, people need to gather in one place -- to be lifted, challenged, or simply entertained -" to experience a communal energy of emotion, wonder, fascination, brilliance, commentary "- this is not luxury; it is essential to being human. Energy percolating inside a theatre . . . Special…