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Anna Deavere Smith is back with 'Let Me Down Easy'

Anna Deavere Smith's new piece is about death and dying, but please don't run away.

It is also about America's health care crisis, but is not intended to send us screaming into the night.

Most of all, "Let Me Down Easy," which opened this week at Second Stage Theatre, is another one of the vibrant, humane, perception-shattering excavations she periodically makes under the outlandishly...

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