In this exclusive interview with The Root, actress Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie, West Wing) talks about her new one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy, which kicked off its national tour at Washington, ...

Playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith is looking back at her provocative theater work in Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History. The ongoing four-part docuseries spotlights the complex ...

Before she starred in hit TV shows and won fellowships like the MacArthur "genius grant," Anna Deavere Smith fit the stereotype of a starving artist. When she couldn't pay others to act in a play she ...

Anna Deavere Smith is a woman of many talents. She is a playwright, an actress, and, ultimately, a storyteller. In her latest role, Smith plays the clerk of court Tina Krissman on For The People, ...

Anna Deavere Smith, a professor at New York University and an award-winning playwright and actress, reflects on the evolution of theater in a short interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival. From ...

Is there tension in labeling a play as being “about grace” and performing it before 800 people as part of a symbolic, first-ever collaboration between UChicago’s new Logan Center and the Harris ...

Playwright, actor and educator Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theatre to explore issues of community, character and diversity in America. The MacArthur Foundation honored Smith with the ...