The August Wilson Center's TRUTHSayers series presents Anna Deavere Smith in a solo show Friday at 8 p.m. The playwright, actor and educator was named a MacArthur "Genius" for creating "a new form of theater " a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie." Ben Brantley of The New York Times said of Ms. Smith, "she is the American theater's most dynamic and sophisticated oral historian…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 04:44PM on April 19, 2018