Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts--For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
MRod says: (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George Stephanopoulos...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The annual Moth Gala is one of our favorite events in New York. In a world drawn impersonal by tweets and newsfeeds, it's refreshing to know that there are still people out there promoting the art of storytelling. There's nothing quite like having your five minutes on stage, connecting with a live audience with an original yarn. Garrison Keillor and Jonathan Ames co-hosted the 2009 Moth ball held...
Egregious Blunders, et cetera. (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
I occasionally post video on this blog that I think is worthwhile. And then I wonder if anyone actually ever watches it. Especially when I embed the video and therefore can't see a link away on the blog traffic tracker. Because, yes, I do know who reads and what links they click. But this time, I can't embed it, so it IS a click. I have enjoyed Anna Deavere Smith in everything that I have encountered...
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Actress Anna Deavere Smith traveled across the country interviewing people about their thoughts on health care. From an injured bull rider to a medical school dean, she recounts what she heard through monologues in her latest documentary-style theater production, Let Me Down Easy.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The PBS public affairs series features actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who discusses her play "Let Me Down Easy."
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
PBS Airtime: Friday, November 13, 2009, at 9:00 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings here ). While politicians and the media war over "the public option" and "bending the cost curve," acclaimed actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith gives voice to questions of life and death, sickness and health care. Bill Moyers speaks with Smith, whose one-woman play, "Let Me Down Easy"...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Friday, November 6, 2009 : Over the past eight years, acclaimed actor, documentarian and playwright Anna Deavere Smith has interviewed hundreds of people -- doctors and patients, celebrities and regular folks, Americans and people from around the world -- about their struggles with illness, pain, mortality and the healthcare system. She has distilled a sampling of their emotionally-charged stories...
TV.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
TV.com's pick of the best TV shows on Aussie screens this week. Jamie's American Road Trip Premiere. Jamie Oliver will visit six US cities in this cooking-travel show in an attempt to prove American cuisine is more than fat foods and take away. It kicks off in New York and he cleverly gravitates away from the five-star restaurants to the heartland of the city: its immigrants. Oliver meets some charismatic...
Isak (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Another ruby from my mining of the TED archive: Anna Deavere Smith's presentation on character in America. It is a hybrid of literature, theater, journalism, and the fiery spirit that cued her Whitman-esque instinct to meet her country. The sheer empathy of Deavere Smith's rendering of real-life people---drawn word-for-word from her interviews with Studs Terkel, inmate Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The annual Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is out. Along with gifts such as his and her jets and a Supercharged Neiman Marcus Edition 2010 Jaguar XJL , they are also offering theAlgonquin Round Table Experience, for $200,000 : An exclusive private dinner party of fine food, engaging wit, and sparkling conversation at New York City’s legendary, literary Algonquin Hotel. You and a guest will be part...
WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Writer and performer Anna Deavere Smith , talks about her new show "Let Me Down Easy," an exploration of the body's resiliency and vulnerability when confronted with illness. Watch an excerpt from Let Me Down Easy: "Let Me Down Easy" runs through December 6th at 2nd Stage Theater , 305 West 43rd Street.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Sisters are doing it for themselves. So far, Carrie Fisher has dished and indulged in self-healing in "Wishful Drinking," Charlayne Woodard has recalled joys and shocks of godmotherhood in "The Night Watcher," and Anna Deavere Smith has given voice to meditations on mortality in "Let Me Down Easy."
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Anna Deavere Smith tells it like it is -- her solo performances are verbatim reproductions of interviews she conducts with the celebrated and the ignored, the cool and the aggrieved -- and she knows where the political hot spots are. The acclaimed monologuist exploded on the national scene in the...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Anna Deavere Smith is described as a "woman of many faces," a performer who takes on issues singlehanded - albeit in a Tracy-Ullman style blitz of wholly different personalities. Now she's gunning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Critic-O-Meter (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
GRADE: A By Anna Deavere Smith. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Second Stage Theatre. Through November 8. Yet another one-person show has opened this season to positive reviews, in fact, the most positive reviews of the season so far. In Anna Deveare Smith's Let Me Down Easy , she recreates over 20 interviews on the subject of death and health care. Critics write that Smith offers a lot of insight on the...
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