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Tell Us Where It Hurts: Anna Deavere Smith's One-Woman Show
Actor, playwright and social commentator Anna Deavere Smith brought her one-woman show Tell Us Where It Hurts to the National Nurses United in Chicago as part of the nurses campaign to heal America. Tell Us was developed by Smith based on actual stories from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Power of healing, as lead by Anna Deavere Smith for National Nurses United
Anna Deavere Smith has, in essence, combined a career doing serious, interview-based theater work like "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angles" with more lucrative acting gigs on TV shows like "The West Wing" and, currently, "Nurse Jackie." Watch from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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Anna Deavere Smith - of Nurse Jackie - to Perform in Chicago on Nation's Healthcare Crisis
The critically acclaimed actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who portrays a nurse on the Emmy award winning Showtime dark comedy Nurse Jackie, will perform Tell Us Where It Hurts, America's Nurses are Listening, a theatrical piece derived from rea from iStockAnalyst Read more »
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Artists, actors creatively reengage with '92 L.A. riots, 'Twilight'
When Anna Deavere Smith first staged her one-woman docu-play "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," a myopic journalist pointedly asked her, "Don't you think your work will have a brief shelf life?" Two decades later, the answer is "in fact, no," Smith said by p from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Anna Deavere Smith revisits "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992"
Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman docu-play "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" is among the most durable artworks to emerge from the ashes of L.A.'s 1992 riots. Based on hours of interviews with about 300 people, the prismatic show was a tour de force in which S from Los Angeles Times Read more »
