What Did Critics Think of Fires in the Mirror Off-Broadway?

Fires in the Mirror, a documentary play written by Anna Deavere Smith in response to the 1991 Crown Heights riots officially returned to Off-Broadway when it opened November 11 at the Signature Theatre.

Originally starring playwright-actor Smith, who first performed the play in 1992, the Signature production is performed by Michael Benjamin Washington () and directed by Saheem Ali.

Following the deaths of a Black American boy and a young Orthodox Jewish scholar in the summer of 1991, underlying racial tensions erupted into civil outbreak in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. Smith's Fires in the Mirror is the result of interviews with over 50 members of the Jewish and Black communities.

See what critics had to say below.