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Jan 09, 2009
The Importance of Being, You Know, Earnest: How Theater Failed America @ Woolly Mammoth
Mike Daisey gets all worked up in “How Theater Failed America.” Photo by Kenneth Aaron. Mike Daisey doesn’t much care for How Theater Failed America as a title, but it’s more compelling, if less accurate, than How Theater Saved Mike Daisey. Which is presumably why Daisey, world-class raconteur that he is, answers the question of the title, more or less, in the very first scene and then moves on to the good stuff. Though…