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Anna Deavere Smith's extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. In Notes from the Field, she renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: "Rich kids get mischief, poor kids get pathologized and incarcerated.") Using people's own words, culled from ...

From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life. Drawing on her own life experiences as an actor, teacher, and playwright, Deavere Smith provid...

The author looks back on lessons from her 30 years of acting and teaching to help chart the path to success for a new generation of artists and performers. She shows how to combine artistic integrity with professional savvy, offering an example of how to pursue one's art without compromise. Young Adult.

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, "Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on current Black-White tensions as it is a work of drama.

Anna Deveare Smith's award-winning one-woman shows were borne of her uniquely brilliant ability to listen. In Talk to Me she applies her rare talent to the language of political power in America. Believing that character and language are inextricably bound, Smith sets out to discern the essence of America by listening to its people and trying to capture its politics. To that end she travels to some of America's most conspicuous places, like th...

Pulitzer-nominated playwright Anna Deavere Smith's incisive work on health care in America.

From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (News-week), here is Anna Deavere Smith's inspiring yet brass-tacks advice to all aspiring artists. "I have agreed to mentor you for a period of five years. Somebody you know made the highest bid on me as an item at a charity fundraiser. My deal was that I would mentor whomever 'won' me at the auction in some way for the next five years." In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, ...

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of 'documentary theater' in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.

From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith examines the relationships between a succession of American presidents and their observers in and out of the press. Arcing from Clinton and Monica Lewinsky to Jefferson and Sally Hemings and alive with the voices of such real-life figures as Ed Bra...