A Thick Description of Harry Smith, Vol. 1 – UW Drama @ Jones Playhouse (Seattle – U-Dist.)

A Thick Description of Harry Smith, a proto-psychedelic medicine show, takes a wild ride through the life, work, and times of filmmaker, musicologist, painter, anthropologist, collector, occultist, and fabulist, Harry Everett Smith. Best known for editing the seminal Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith’s peculiar life is an emblem of American bohemian life in the 20th Century. Written by Carlos Murillo, directed by Nick O’Leary.

Previews 1/13, 1/17; opens 1/19

Tickets $23 ($11 for previews), here.