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Let Me Down Easy
About This Book
ā¢ Originally produced at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT, in the winter of 2008, with a subsequent production at the American Repertory Theatre in the fall of 2008. The play received its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Theatre in the fall of 2009, which received great critical acclaim and an extension.ā¢ Let Me Down Easy was a featured program as part of PBS's Great Performances series on January 13, 2012.ā¢ Selected as a Time Out Chicago and New York Times Critics' Pickā¢ Smith's topical, documentarian style of work would resonate with a demographic interested in national politics and history, as well as those interested in drama and performanceā¢ In 2013, Smith received the 2012 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obamaā¢ In 2015, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanitiesā¢ Her work Fires in the Mirror was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Dramaā¢ Smith won 2013 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prizeā¢ She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996ā¢ She won the 2006 Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for her contribution to civil rights issues
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Production History
- Note from the Playwright
- James H. Cone
- Elizabeth Streb
- Lance Armstrong
- Sally Jenkins
- Eve Ensler
- Brent Williams
- Michael Bentt
- Hazel Merritt
- Lauren Hutton
- Ruth Katz
- Kiersta Kurtz-Burke
- Phil Pizzo
- Susan Youens
- Eduardo Bruera
- Ann Richards
- Lorraine Coleman
- Joel Siegel
- Peter Gomes
- Trudy Howell
- Matthieu Ricard