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

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

In this theater publicity image released by The

Photo credit: AP | In this theater publicity image released by The Hartman Group, Anna Deavere Smith stars in "Let Me Down Easy," now running at off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre in New York.

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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