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A new play by Anna Deavere Smith about tennis icon Billie Jean King is in development, with Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) set to direct. A reading in August is planned as part of the New York Stage and Film 2022 Summer Season. Love All is described as the story of “the rise of sports icon and…

Fresh from filming the Ryan Murphy-produced The Boys in the Band for Netflix, Michael Benjamin Washington has been cast in a coveted role in the first major production of Anna Deavere Smith’s acclaimed, one-actor documentary play Fires in the Mirror since its New York premiere 25 years ago. The original production…

Netflix has opened up vast new possibilities for Shondaland, a panel comprised of company executives and creative collaborators agreed Sunday, but the DNA that informed Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal remains intact. “The underlying principles of what made the Shondaland recipe in the ABC version are going to be alive and…

Anna Deavere Smith has been named a playwright in residence of Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre’s 2019-20 season, with two of her groundbreaking plays set for revival. Though Smith will not perform in either of the shows, her Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 are set to debut next October and April…

Anna Deavere Smith, whose solo play Notes From the Field aired on HBO in February, will debut a new production during summer 2019 at the New York Theatre Workshop, the NYTW announced today. Details about the as-yet-untitled play were not disclosed, though The New York Times has reported Smith’s upcoming project to be…

Anna Deavere Smith, a MacArthur “genius” whose skills as deep-dive reporter, canny mimic and social activist have merged in such ground-breaking theatrical works as Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Fires In The Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities and the recent Notes From the Field: Doing Time In Education…

Britne Oldford (Syfy’s Hunters), Ben Rappaport (The Good Wife) and veteran Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie) are set to star in an ABC legal drama pilot from Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers' Shondaland and ABC Studios. The project, written by Paul William Davies and directed by Tom Verica. Set in the Southern District…