Anna Deveare Smith's NOTES FROM THE FIELD takes an unflinching look at America’s school-to-prison pipeline and the devastating consequences of our flawed justice system. Now running at Portland ...

In her two great masterpieces, “Fires in the Mirror” and “Twilight: Los Angeles,” the playwright-performer Anna Deavere Smith introduced America to a novel kind of docudrama. In shows dealing with the ...

With NOTES FROM THE FIELD, playwright Anna Deavere Smith once again proves she’s a master of her genre of theatrical storytelling. Known for her documentary (or verbatim) plays, Smith presents ...