Articles about The Mountaintop
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Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" imagines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last night on Earth.
Katori Hall's 2009 play, which imagines MLK's final night at the Lorraine Motel, has become a staple on U.S. stages.
While the director says performances were divided, the actor says he was replaced for the full run.
In the many press accounts of director Michael Oatman casting a white man to play Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, stories have all acknowledged Oatman's orig…
"The casting of a white King is committing yet another erasure of the black body," Katori Hall writes of a university production
Playwright Katori Hall broke her silence over last month's Kent State University production of her play, The Mountaintop, that double-cast the lead role of Dr. Martin Luther King wit…
She calls the casting, 'a self-serving and disrespectful directing exercise for a paying audience.'
Yes. We are now living in a time where colorblind casting can go both ways– or not. Last month Kent State (located in Ohio, of the top theatre and dance schools of the state) Dep…
Licensing agency changes contract after controversial production.
People are dumbfounded. People are incredulous. People are angry.
In the past few hours, a month-old story began circulating on social media about a production of Katori Hall's widely…
Katori Hall’s new play about the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination took the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 after playing a successful run at Trafalg…
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Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, which received a 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play and was previously announced to arrive on Broadway this season, will now likely make its Main Stem d…
The New York Times is reporting that the Broadway production of The Mountaintop is likely to take the stage in Fall of 2011.
A dramatically surprising examination of the night before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
Katori Hall's The Mountaintop transfers to Trafalgar Studios from 16 July following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Theatre503.
Katori Hall's new play about the night before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's assassination took the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010 after playing a successful run at Trafalgar Studios i…
Academy Award winner Halle Berry has confirmed that she will make her Broadway debut in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop opposite Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson, according to ETOnline.
King as orator and visionary; King as ordinary man with a cold.
