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Nov 11, 2019 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Nearly three decades after it was first unveiled, the panoramic view provided by Anna Deavere Smith’s “Fires in the Mirror” still makes you catch your breath and shake ...
Oct 27, 2016 · 4 minute read. Anna Deavere Smith attends the 10th Annual Apollo Theater Spring Gala at The Apollo Theater on June 8, 2015 in New York City. Shahar Azran—Getty Images. Ideas. By Eliza Berman ...
Aug 17, 2020 · In 1993, the photographer Richard Avedon made a portrait, in edgeless black-and-white, of the playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith, to accompany an article in this magazine by John Lahr.
Nov 13, 2023 · November 13, 2023 3:00am. Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic Unique Nicole/Getty Images. For the first time in nearly a century, The Atlantic magazine will publish a new play: The Ghost of Slavery ...
May 2, 2024 · Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American playwright, actress, author, journalist, and educator, who is best known for her one-woman plays that examine the social issues behind current events. Smith was raised in a racially segregated middle-class section of Baltimore.
Nov 3, 2016 · Anna Deavere Smith’s new performance piece explores the cursed intersection of two American institutions, the school and the prison, in a racially divided nation.
Apr 28, 2024 · Explore performance as a way of knowing with award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith. This is the first lecture in the four-part series Chasing That Which Is Not Me / Chasing That Which Is Me, the 73rd A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Since 1980, Smith has been interviewing Americans through her project “On ...
