There is one word for Michael Benjamin Washington’s stunning performance in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities (opening tonight at Signature Theatre, to December 15): virtuosic.
He inhabits every character in Anna Deavere Smith’s Drama Desk-award winning play, originally performed in 1992—an oral history distilled from interviews with over 50 members of the Jewish and African American communities affected in various ways by the Crown Heights Riots of 1991.
The riots followed the death of Gavin Cato, 7, who was knocked down and killed by Yosef Lifsh, a Hasidic Jew; his sister Angela was seriously injured. Riots and fights broke out, and then Hasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum was stabbed to death by a black teenager, Lemrick Nelson.
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