Movies
Their vampire characters in ‘Twilight’ shun human blood. The young actors are a similarly civilized group, having spent so much quality time together.
Nov. 2, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
Anna Deavere Smith and director Gregg T. Daniel revisit the writer/performer’s groundbreaking solo documentary theater piece, retrofitted for a cast of five, in a new production at the Mark Taper Forum.
March 1, 2023
‘Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,’ Anna Deavere Smith’s documentary play about the Rodney King uprising, is reconceived for a new era with many of the same problems.
March 21, 2023
Anna Deavere Smith, whose documentary theater offerings have investigated the Rodney King riots (“Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992”) and the crisis in U.S. healthcare (“Let Me Down Easy”), among other societal flash points, has been hard at work on a new piece on the school-to-prison pipeline in poor minority communities.
April 16, 2015
World & Nation
Racism: Neo-Nazis in Idaho are just one target of a drive to bankrupt violent advocates of white power.
Aug. 22, 2000
Travel & Experiences
On April 9, 1865, in Virginia’s Appomattox Court House, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant accepted Robert E.
Dec. 14, 1995
TELEVISION ‘Twilight’ to PBS: Playwright Anna Deavere Smith has won a $1-million grant from the Michigan-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to film her acclaimed one-woman stage show “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” as a PBS movie.
March 11, 1998
The washroom of a Tehran park is not the first place you would expect to find women speaking frankly about suicide, prostitution, drug addiction, divorce and various forms of abuse.
May 13, 2004
Awards
There probably will be a happily-ever-after ending for “Snow White and the Huntsman”at the box office this weekend.
May 31, 2012