As long as you enjoyed the work, I would say yes. While it's true that live performances give you the acting, set design, and costume design for the work, a clo

As long as you enjoyed the work, I would say yes. While it's true that live performances give you the acting, set design, and costume design for the work, a close examination of the writing helps with appreciating the wordplay and usage of language more—as some of the elegance might be missed with seeing a performance just once (though you could pick up more if you see multiple performances of the same script).