Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

Politics & Social Sciences

Anna, Deavere Smith

Social Sciences

Random House]

Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts--For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith’s brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life. Drawing on her own life experiences as an actor, teacher and playwright, Deavere Smith provides a motivating example for how to pursue one’s art without compromise, while offering tips on everything from how to stay healthy to building a diverse network of friends and professional alliances. Honest, passionate, and inspiring, this audiobook has life-changing potential.

Arts & Photography

Blackstone

In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Anna Deavere Smith advises her young artist on everything from how to stay healthy to tips for building a diverse network of friends and professional alliances. Inspiring and deeply moving, this book has life-changing potential.

From "the most exciting individual in American theater: (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's inspiring yet brass tacks advice to all aspiring artists

Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts- For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Business & Money

Industries

Blackstone Audiobooks

From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life. Drawing on her own life experiences as an actor, teacher, and playwright, Deavere Smith provides a motivating example for how to pursue one's art without compromise, while addressing the full spectrum of issues that people starting out will face--from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change. Honest, passionate, and inspiring, this audiobook has life-changing potential.

This drama was originally written to be performed by one but flexible casting is available. In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man's car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic rabbinical student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights' previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America. Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with Crown Heights' residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers, victims and perpetrators alike, Anna Deavere Smith has created a theatrical event distilling the lives and voices of twenty-six of the incident's survivors into a visionary amalgam, the import of which touches upon every A

Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights and Other Identities (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Smith, Anna Deavere

Humor & Entertainment

Dramatist's Play Service

Acclaimed as "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek), TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 is a stunning new work of "documentary theatre" in which Anna Deavere Smith uses the verbatim words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates and other witnesses, participants and victims. A work that goes directly to the heart of the issues of race and class, TWILIGHT ruthlessly probes the language and the lives of its subjects, offering stark insight into the complex and pressing social, economic and political issues that fueled the flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict.

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 - Acting Edition (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

House Arrest: A Search for American Character In and Around the White House, Past and Present - Acting Edition

Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith, Susan Yankowitz

Seven

Carol K. Mack

Paula Cizmar

Catherine Filloux

Gail Kriegel

Ruth Margraff

Susan Yankowitz

Dramatists Play Service

Seven women give voice to the voiceless. Seven is a documentary play created with the support of Vital Voices Global Partnership and is a collaboration between the playwrights and seven female activists from around the globe, telling inspiring stories of overcoming adversity to effect real change and improve the lives of women.
 Includes panel discussions with Russian activist Marina Pisklakova-Parker, and playwrights Paula Cizmar and Susan Yankowitz. The moderators are René Jones, Executive Director of the United Talent Agency Foundation, and Alyse Nelson, the president, CEO, and co-founder of Vital Voices Global Partnership. 
 An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance, featuring: Shannon Holt as Marina Pisklakova-Parker Jossara Jinaro as Laura Alonso Alex Kingston as Inez McCormack Emily Kuroda as Mu Sochua Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris as Hafsat Abiola Annet Mahendru as Farida Azizi Sarah Shahi as Mukhtar Mai 
 Directed by Judyann Elder and recorded live in performance in January 2017 at UCLA s James Bridges Theater. 
 Sound Effects Artist and Additional Voices, Jeff Gardner. Production Manager, Tori Burnett. Post-Production Coordinator, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording and Mixing Engineer, Sound Designer and Editor, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

LA Theatre Works

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