Darryl Reilly, Critic "Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for," said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating the reality of the lack of opportunities for performers of color in the entertainment industry at the time. Anna Deavere Smith It was this frustration that led the African-American Ms. Smith to pursue creating the works of documentar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30AM on October 17, 2016