We’re losing our connection with one another. Performing arts education can help us get it back
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We’re losing our connection with one another. Performing arts education can help us get it back
Published
July 30, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)
In a scene from "Hadestown," actors Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney demonstrate the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own. (Walter McBride/Getty Images)
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