Dec 29, 2009

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 | Critical Overview

Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 has garnered considerable critical acclaim through its production history, stretching from venues in Los Angeles and New York to Washington, D. C. and London, England. Its success in theaters far removed from the play's focus and epicenter, the Spring, 1992, civil upheaval in South-Central Los Angeles, attests to its power to transcend the topicality of its content—the real-world social problems that have led P. J. Corso and others to call her play a "docudrama."

For some critics, in her On the Road series, of which...