Anna Deavere Smith

Tell Us Where It Hurts: Anna Deavere Smith's One-Woman Show

Kevin O'Donnell | Posted 05.22.2012

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Every nurse I talked to earlier in the day at a rally in downtown Chicago and before the show had a similar personal story to add to the Smith's Tell Us Where It Hurts show. Not one nurse thought either the U.S. health care system or the U.S. economy was working.

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Nurse Jackie Just Gets Better and Better

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 04.05.2012

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If you haven't watched the first three seasons of Nurse Jackie you have been missing out on one of the best shows on cable.

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Gains And Losses

Anna Deavere Smith | Posted 10.04.2011

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When I conducted my research for my latest one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy, I was concerned by images I saw of Black African people in distress in major U.S. publications. Were these photos engendering action, or merely pity or worst apathy?

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My LA: Finding The City’s Beauty And Ugliness With Anna Deavere Smith

| Heather Wood Rudulph | Posted 09.24.2011

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Who: Anna Deavere Smith  Current LA Gig: The New York writer/actress/director (and veteran of TV and film) is performing her latest one-woman sho...

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Let Me Down Easy

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 05.25.2011

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At a time of debate around "death panels", Anna Deavere Smith brings to life a rich, diverse range of perspectives on how we live and die in America today.

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Why So Silent A Week After Statewide Education Protests?

Vincent Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I have listened to folks across California talk about the California State University's budget crisis, I have also witnessed waning media coverage and diminishing discourse. A little over a week has passed since the March 4th day of protest, and it just feels quieter.

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Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers is Important Stage Documentary

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Brian Kelly, Larry Bryggman, George Wilson, Katharine Graham, The Power of Yes, George W. Bush, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, Ben Bradlee, Via Dolorosa, Lucy Prebble, New York Theatre Workshop, Peter Strauss, Richard Nixon, All the President's Men, Anna Deavere Smith, Fire in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Matt McGrath, Jack Gilpin, L. A. Theatre Works, Enron, The New York Times, Neil Sheehan, Susan Albert Loewenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Larry Pine, H. R. Haldeman, David Hare, The Exonerated, John Mitchell, Let Me Down Easy, Kathryn Meisle, The Washington Post, Brooklyn and Other Identities, Entertainment News

The intent behind these stage documentaries is to inform. Although billed as plays, these theatrical entries aren't that. They're news reports outfitted with theatrical accoutrements.

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Broadway Play Tackles Issues of Death

nytimes.com | Gina Kolata | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ms. Smith, a tall, imposing woman, takes on the character of her subjects by repeating their exact words, complete with regional accents, ums and uhs ...

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Garrison Keillor Delights at the Black and White Moth Ball

Ariston Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan Ames, Garrison Keillor, Anna Deavere Smith, The Moth, New York News

The Moth has found a way to make storytelling vivid and alive, even for impatient New Yorkers.

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Science and the Arts to Meet Up Tonight in New York

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anna Deavere Smith, Damian Woetzel, Joshua Bell, Edward O. Wilson, Brian Greene, World Science Festival, String Theory, Entertainment News

The worlds of science and the arts -- which don't frequently intersect -- will meet tonight in New York, at the opening gala of the World Science Festival.

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