Forces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed.

Smith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York.

Part documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose.

When it was first performed in theaters a couple of years after the L.A. riots took place, Twilight: Los Angeles must have been very powerful. Unfortunately, director Mark Levin's filmed version lacks that impact.

The resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture.