BREAKING NEWS: Anna Deavere Smith Tickets $10 Off For First Wednesday and Sunday Evening Performances

This won't last long.

ZACH Theatre is offering a special promotional rate for Anna Deavere Smith's first Wednesday and Sunday evening performances of her new play LET ME DOWN EASY. For 8pm performances on Wednesday, April 15 and Sunday, April 19 only, ZACH will take $10 off all tickets purchased by phone (512-476-0541, x1), until the shows sell out.

This is Ms. Smith's last stop before heading to New York, and we anticipate sold out crowds every night during her short run in Austin.

LET ME DOWN EASY is an Austin-borne play that started 8 years ago right here at ZACH. This is a rare opportunity for Austin audiences to experience such a high caliber performance by film and television star Anna Deavere Smith.

Directed by Broadway's Leonard Foglia, and made possible by the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, Ms. Smith incorporates a dramatic range of interview subjects during this passionate, utterly jaw-dropping performance. It is a masterful documentary style staging of real-life interviews of influential and important figures -- ranging from Texas Governor Ann Richards to Lance Armstrong, Eve Ensler, Anderson Cooper and survivors of the Rwandan Genocide -- as Ms. Smith channels their compelling perspectives on issues from healthcare and education to international politics and the economy.

Dave Steakley, ZACH's Artistic Director, notes, "Ms. Smith possesses the amazing ability to change from one character to another -- swiftly, completely and stunningly. Through her full transformation, right before our eyes, we find ourselves equipped with the tools to create personal change for ourselves."

This is a performance like nothing you've ever seen before. You are at once watching Ms. Smith deliver the performance of her lifetime and getting a rare opportunity to meet some of the most significant athletes, physicians and players in the global health crisis.

Don't miss it. It all starts Weds., April 15 -- and, remember, ZACH is running a promotion of $10 off tickets for evening (8pm) performances on its first night in preview (4/15) and the first Sunday, April 19. But the offer is on a first-come, first-served basis by phone only, at (512) 476-0541, x1.

Photos by Michael Lutch, courtesy of American Repertory Theatre