The phrase "addressed the theme of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the main ideas or subjects explored in a piece of literature, art, or any form of communication.
Example: "The author addressed the theme of love and sacrifice throughout the novel."
Alternatives: "explored the theme of" or "tackled the theme of".
Painting in a willfully naive, realist style, Mr. Moore, 47, has long addressed the theme of poisoned nature.
In "Where We Come From," perhaps her most acclaimed piece, Ms. Jacir addressed the theme of a lost Palestinian homeland.
What I really liked about it was the sense of shock I sometimes felt about the way the film addressed the theme of slavery.
In his LRB winter lecture at the British Museum, the critic James Wood addressed the theme of exile – "On Not Going Home".
A prolific novelist, essayist and short-story writer, Fuentes has addressed the theme of Mexican identity in all manner of styles -- realist, magic realist, neo-Joycean stream of consciousness and plain lucid polemic.
In addition to this focus on the theme of reductive relations between parts and wholes, Kant also addressed the theme of the relation among different scientific domains in his discussion of sciences having their own distinct concepts and subject matter (Critique of Judgment, §68, 79).
That was one objection raised in 1965 by the theologian Paul Tillich at a major conference where a score of world leaders addressed the themes of "Pacem in Terris".
His first novel, Geronimo Rex (1972), which received a National Book Award nomination, is a raucous coming-of-age story addressing the theme of racism.
Addressing the theme of austerity versus growth, Letta said he wanted to see Europe show the same determination to pursue growthas it does to maintain sound public finances.
The most important graphic novels — books like Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" — are truly literary works, rich with complexity and ambiguity, even in addressing the theme of good and evil.
