“When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, ‘We’re all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.’ If you’re not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.”
David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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