Panelists see theater as a safe place to address uncomfortable truths about race

 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The theater may be the perfect place to address race in America.Benny Ambush, senior producer in residence at Emerson College, in Boston, said theaters dare to present uncomfortable truths in a safe place and afterward, the audience can reflect and talk about the performance with strangers to their left and right. He said it is also a place "where you can imagine what could be.""It is in the theater where we can be [...]