Photo Coverage: NOTES FROM THE FIELD's Anna Deavere Smith Meets The Press

Second Stage Theatre's New York Premiere production of NOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION, the latest work created, written and performed by groundbreaking theatre artist Anna Deavere Smith with music composed and performed by Marcus Shelby and directed by Leonard Foglia, will open on November 2, 2016 at the Tony Kiser Theatre (305 West 43rd Street). Previews will begin on October 15.

One of the most hailed and provocative theatre artists of our time, Anna Deavere Smith, leads a new installation of powerful first-person storytelling inNOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION. Urgent and inspiring, it depicts the personal accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison pipeline, as they experience in their wider communities the inequities of poverty, lack of opportunity, and over-aggressive policing. Investigating a justice system that pushes minors from poor communities out of the classroom and into incarceration, NOTES FROM THE FIELD: DOING TIME IN EDUCATION shines a light on a lost generation of American youth. Drawn from interviews with more than 250 people living and working within a challenged system, Anna Deavere Smith continues her mastery of the documentary solo performance by stimulating awareness and ultimately, change for the better.

Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter Keddy

Notes From The Field

Notes From The Field

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith

Leonard Foglia and Anna Deavere Smith

Leonard Foglia and Anna Deavere Smith

Leonard Foglia (Director)

Marcus Shelby (Music)

Leonard Foglia and Anna Deavere Smith

Leonard Foglia and Anna Deavere Smith

Leonard Foglia, Anna Deavere Smith and Marcus Shelby

Leonard Foglia, Anna Deavere Smith and Marcus Shelby