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Anna Deavere Smith revisits "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" by Reed Johnson

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 Smith originally played more than 40 different characters, including then-Police Chief Daryl Gates, truck driver Reginald Denny, a former L.A. gang member and a Korean…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:15PM on April 25, 2012

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