#40YearsBold Theater Night: Fires in the Mirror

Join North Star Fund for an evening at the Signature Theater, in celebration of our 40th Anniversary. Tickets guarantee a seat with us for a performance of "Fires in the Mirror," written by MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and National Humanities Medal recipient Anna Deavere Smith, and directed by Saheem Ali.

Please join us for a pre-show reception at 6:45PM, and a toast at 7:15.

The show begins promptly at 7:30PM. No late entries permitted.

Fires in the Mirror: There are three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth. Following the deaths of a Black American boy and a young Orthodox Jewish scholar in the summer of 1991, underlying racial tensions in the nestled community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn erupted into civil outbreak. Fires in the Mirror was Anna Deavere Smith’s groundbreaking response. Birthed from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the Jewish and Black communities, the Drama Desk award-winning work translated their voices verbatim, and in the process revolutionized the genre of documentary theatre. As much provocation as it is exploration, this landmark play launches Anna Deavere Smith’s Residency 1 at Signature.