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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

  • Aug 28, 2022 - Sep 24, 2022

  • Loeb Drama Center

  • Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission

Recommended for grades 10+.

Recommended for grades 10+.

  • Run Time

    2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission

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A must-see! A gripping and urgent production. Smith and her early masterpiece still have plenty to say.

The Boston Globe

“As necessary now as when Los Angeles was actively smoldering” (The New York Times), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a stirring cry for reform. Thirty years ago, the news of the police officers’ acquittal in Rodney King’s police brutality case reverberated throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Called “a riot,” “a revolution,” and “a social explosion,” the events that followed drew worldwide attention—and inspired playwright, actor, and scholar Anna Deavere Smith (Notes from the Field: Doing Time in EducationLet Me Down EasyFires in the Mirror) to dissect the anatomy of the civil unrest. Her Tony Award-nominated, Obie Award-winning exploration derived from interviews with more than 350 Los Angelinos reveals the fault lines that set the city ablaze. Smith revised the play last year for a cast of five while in residence at Signature Theatre, where Taibi Magar (Macbeth In Stride, We Live in Cairo) directed this acclaimed production.

This production contains footage of extreme violence, instances of racialized and discriminatory language, and the sound of a gunshot. See our Resources for Healing.

Conceived, Written, and Revised by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Taibi Magar
Presented in association with Signature Theatre

Notable dates

Opening Night: 9/1
ASL Interpreted: 9/18 at 2PM & 9/21 at 7:30PM
Audio Described: 9/17 at 2PM & 9/22 at 7:30PM
Open Captioned: 9/17 at 2PM & 9/22 at 7:30PM
Relaxed: 9/24 at 2PM

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Engagement Support
The Crimson Lion / Lavine Family Foundation
Production Support
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
Additional Education and Engagement Support
Abrams Foundation

Ticket Initiative

1,000 free tickets to Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 are available to public high school students, including for The Appetizer on September 23. Students can reserve tickets online.

1,500 tickets priced at $5 are available to anyone who self-identifies as benefiting from a subsidized ticket. Please contact Ticket Services at TicketServices@amrep.org or 617.547.8300 to purchase tickets.

The A.R.T. will provide free and subsidized tickets to Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 with support from a lead gift from The Crimson Lion / Lavine Family Foundation. This new ticket initiative is designed to help lower the economic barrier to attending theater, and activate civic engagement in young people, and underscore the importance of civilized dialogue in creating a more equitable society.

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The A.R.T. will provide free and subsidized tickets to Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 with support from a lead gift from The Crimson Lion / Lavine Family Foundation. This new ticket initiative is designed to help lower the economic barrier to attending theater, and activate civic engagement in young people, and underscore the importance of civilized dialogue in creating a more equitable society.

Learn More about the Initiative

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Creative Team

Conceived, Written, and Revised by

Anna Deavere Smith

Directed by

Taibi Magar

Scenic Design

Riccardo Hernandez

Costume Design

Linda Cho

Lighting Design

Alan C. Edwards

Sound Design

Darron L. West

Projection Design

David Bengali

Movement Coach

Michael Leon Thomas

Dialect Designer

Amy Stoller

Sensitivity Specialist

Ann James

Casting

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Caparelliotis Casting

Production Stage Manager (8/28-9/4)

Linda Marvel

Production Stage Manager (9/6-9/24)

Melanie J. Lisby

Production Stage Manager (Sub)

Emily F. McMullen

Lisa McGinn

Michael Medina

Cast (in Order of Appearance)

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