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Fires in the Mirror. Revisiting the Crown Heights Riots and the birth of Anna Deavere Smith's new theatrical genre by Jonathan Mandell

It would be hard to overstate the city-wide trauma that occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in August, 1991, nor the power of "Fires in the Mirror," the groundbreaking documentary play about it nine months later at the Public, which introduced New York theatergoers to the astonishing theater artist Anna Deavere Smith. That power comes roaring...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PM on November 16, 2019

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