In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, playwright, actor and professor, Anna Deavere Smith has written an original play ...

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Anna Deavere Smith is a woman of many talents. She is a playwright, an actress, and, ultimately, a storyteller. In her latest role, Smith plays the clerk of court Tina Krissman on For The People, ...

Anna Deavere Smith is an acclaimed actress, journalist, and playwright. She's a pioneer of what's known as 'verbatim theater,' which is... Anna Deavere Smith plays real Americans on stage - and she ...

It’s (almost) all about American history this theater season as the city nears America’s 250th, from 1776 The Musical making a return to speculative stories focusing on Philadelphia trailblazers, like ...

Playwright, actor and educator Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theatre to explore issues of community, character and diversity in America. The MacArthur Foundation honored Smith with the ...

Smith is a celebrated writer and performer recognized by millions for her memorable roles on stage and screen, and Steel is the UK-based author of the acclaimed West End play Till the Stars Come Down.

Wednesday, Anna Deavere Smith will bring her acclaimed one-woman show “Notes from the Field” to the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The powerful presentation finds the Tony and Pulitzer Prize nominee ...

Before she starred in hit TV shows and won fellowships like the MacArthur "genius grant," Anna Deavere Smith fit the stereotype of a starving artist. When she couldn't pay others to act in a play she ...

In April 1963, under police detention in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King read an open letter, published in a local newspaper, from a number of southern white clergymen calling for an end to ...

Anna Deavere Smith is a woman of many talents. She is a playwright, an actress, and, ultimately, a storyteller. In her latest role, Smith plays the clerk of court Tina Krissman on For The People, ...