By 
Wendell Pierce
 | 
TEDx Talk

Theater healed my community after Hurricane Katrina

Actor Wendell Pierce ruminates on his performance of "Waiting for Godot" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting the prophetic, transformative and rejuvenating powers of art in times of great strife.

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