"Invaluable. . . . Absorbing. . . . Dazzling." –
The New York Times "Deeply moving. . . . Dazzling stagecraft meets dazzling spectacle. . . . Magnificent. . . . Wonderful." –
Newsday "Moving. . . . Smith is an effective and supremely talented conduit." –
Los Angeles Times
"Anna Deavere Smith has created one of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation." –
Variety "Devastating. . . . Astonishing. . . . Unquestionably great theater." –
Vulture
"Brilliant. . . . Anna Deavere Smith may be the most empathetic person in America." –
HuffPost "[A] masterpiece. . . . Smith's powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope." –
The Village Voice "Urgently timely. . . . Audacious and mind-opening." –
Time Out New York "This is captivating political theatre, a devastating document of racial inequality and the most rousing of rallying calls. Everyone should watch it." –
The Guardian
"A tour de force. . . . A coruscating indictment of the school-to-prison pipeline." –
Financial Times
"Stirring. . . . Powerful. . . . The scope is almost Shakespearean: the voices range from policy professionals to people on the street. If there's an overarching thrust . . . it lies in the suggestion that the struggle for civil rights is ongoing: the legacy of segregation, its trauma too, endures and reasserts itself." –
The Telegraph (London)
