TITLE: TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
AUTHOR: ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
WHERE: MARK TAPER FORUM, LOS ANGELES
THE BOTTOM LINE: Can a multicultural America really work? A dazzling one-woman show asks some tough questions.
In person Anna Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a...
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