Long Wharf To Offer World Premiere Of Deavere Smith Work
Long Wharf To Offer World Premiere Of Deavere Smith Work
NEW HAVEN â Long Wharf Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Joan Channick, will present the world premier of Let Me Down Easy, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
Directed by Stephen Wadsworth, the show will be on the theaterâs Mainstage from January 9 until February 3.
Known to Long Wharf Theatre audiences as the creator of Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, Anna Deavere Smithâs newest one-woman show, inspired by interviews conducted as a visiting professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, explores the resiliency and vulnerability of the human body.
Curtain times are Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 pm, Thursday and Friday at 8, Saturday at 3 and 8, and Sunday at 2 and 7. Tickets are $31.25 to $61.25.
Long Wharf is at 222 Sargent Drive, and can be reached by calling 203-787-4282 or online at LongWharf.org.