Samuel L. Jackson in 'The Mountaintop': What did critics think?
"The Mountaintop," the new play by Katori Hall starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett, opened his week at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York following an acclaimed run in London. Expectations for the drama -- a speculative work about the last day in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- are high. The celebrity casting has added a media-frenzy element to the equation.