Mimi O'Donnell

Theater is therapeutic, Ms. O’Donnell said, in part because “it makes you remember there are other emotions.”

“I go in feeling whatever I’m feeling about grief, and all of a sudden there’s something onstage that’s happening — it cracks something open,” she said. “When they really, truly open up in front of you emotionally, there’s something about it that I find humbling as a human being.

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