Anna Deavere Smith Becomes Resident Artist At A Cathedral

Last Sunday, the actress-playwright-documentarian gave her first sermon as artist-in-residence at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco; she presents a new play on the theme of grace next weekend. “Both Ms. Smith and the Very Rev. Jane Shaw, who became the cathedral’s dean last year, share a vision of bringing together art and religion, historically-linked pursuits that are sometimes at odds in modern America.”