“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
George Bernard Shaw, “An Old New Play and a New Old One”
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
George Bernard Shaw, “An Old New Play and a New Old One”
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