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Playwright Finds a New Stage Home in New York
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Anna Deavere Smith, who transformed the art of solo performance in the 1990s by embodying dozens of characters in her plays “Fires in the Mirror” and “Twilight: Los Angeles 1992,” is returning to the New York stage this fall for the first time in nine years with a new production about medicine and health care, “Let Me Down Easy.”
The play was originally commissioned by the Public Theater and was supposed to have its debut there in the 2005-6 season, but Ms. Smith has opted for a new Off Broadway home in New York: Second Stage Theater, where “Let Me Down Easy” is to begin previews on Sept. 15 and open in early October. The director will be Leonard Foglia, who performed similar duties on Broadway last year with the one-man show “Thurgood,” starring Laurence Fishburne.
Ms. Smith, who spent the past year refining “Let Me Down Easy” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., said in a phone interview that the Second Stage production would be quite different in approach from the earlier productions.
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