In a departure from his usual emphasis upon canonical figures of the stage such as Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Badiou devotes In Praise of Theatre largely to a consideration of contemporary practitioners, including Jan Fabre, Brigitte Jacques and Romeo Castellucci. In addition, the book features an incisive analysis of the precarious status of the theatre today, in which Badiou describes not only the current threats to the theatre from the right, but the far more insidious threat from the left.《赞美戏剧》是阿兰-巴迪欧关于 "最完整的艺术"--戏剧舞台的最新作品。这本书肯定会引起学者和戏剧从业者的极大兴趣，它阐述了巴迪欧在《戏剧狂想曲》和《戏剧论》等作品中提出的戏剧理论，并探究了足以应对我们 "当代市场导向的混乱 "的戏剧的地位。

巴迪欧一改他一贯强调舞台上的经典人物，如布莱希特（Bertolt Brecht）和贝克特（Samuel Beckett）的做法，在《赞美戏剧》中主要考虑了当代实践者，包括杨-法布尔（Jan Fabre）、布里吉特-雅克（Brigitte Jacques）和罗密欧-卡斯特鲁奇（Romeo Castellucci）。此外，该书还对当今戏剧的不稳定地位进行了精辟的分析，其中巴迪欧不仅描述了当前来自右翼的戏剧威胁，还描述了来自左翼的更为隐蔽的威胁