Anna Deavere Smith's Notes From the Field Extends Off-Broadway

Tony nominee Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field has been extended off-Broadway. The Second Stage production will now run through December 18. The acclaimed playwright and performer reunites with director Leonard Foglia for the solo show, which kicks off Second Stage's 2016-2017 off-Broadway season. It was originally set to play through December 11.

Created, written and performed by Smith, Notes from the Field depicts the personal accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline. Smith and Foglia's previous performance collaboration, Let Me Down Easy, had its 2008 premiere at Second Stage. Notes from the Field also kicked off American Repertory Theater's season in Cambrige, Massachusetts in August.

Urgent and inspiring, Notes from the Field investigates a justice system that pushes minors from poor communities out of the classroom and into incarceration, shining a light on a lost generation of American youth. Drawn from interviews with more than 200 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.