Interested in seeing a show this month? Hoping for one that will force you to contemplate the consequences of infidelity and the temporal nature of life, plus be entertaining to boot? Then y…
The show: Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" at Hartford's TheaterWorks
He smokes. He cusses. He drinks. He comes on to a woman who isn't his wife. But he also speaks in the inspirational voice of a Gandhi-esque leader who forced America to search its conscience…
Arena Stage's co-production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life raises the question of whether to judge a production on how you …
In The Mountaintop, receiving its Washington area premiere at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theater, playwright Katori Hall presents the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a flawed human being r…
From The Mountaintop into the Promised Land I thought it was really raining behind the motel room on the Kreeger Theater stage. They must have extended the sprinkler system and built a troug…
Turning a man into myth isn't complicated — it happens easily, even naturally, over time. But finding the man at the root of the the myth can be trickier, and unfolding his page out of…
TheaterWorks' Re-Creates MLK's Lorraine Motel RoomAudiences at Hartford's TheaterWorks production of "The Mountaintop" will be transported in time and place, not just by the power of the scr…
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's award-winning play about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the night before he was killed at Memphis' Lorraine Motel, is enjoying a post-Broadway life at Arena Stage.…
Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop comes to Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater following an acclaimed run at the Alley Theatre in Houston. Obie Award …
April 4, 1968, Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.. The date and place are famous as the setting of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Beethovan Oden plays Dr. Mar…
Actors Theatre of Louisville artistic director Les Waters and managing director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the company's 50th anniversary season, which will include Katori Hall…
Two reviews in print this week for two wildly different shows: the return of Jersey Boys to the Curran Theatre as part of the SHN season and the local premiere of Katori Hall's The Mountaint…
Play that won British honors offers little drama.Â
Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop has been highly controversial because it was mounted during a stagehands strike ... Luna Theater's production of Lungs is surpri…
The lack of stagecraft in this production deprives the play of its full power.
Courtney Thomas, who was in "Emotional Creature" at off-Broadway's Signature Theatre, and J amil Morgan , who was in "Romeo and Juliet" at Connectiocut Free Shakespeare, will star in …
It is not fanciful to compare Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate today, with Moses. Like the biblical figure, Dr. King led his people out of captivity. Like Moses, the Georg…
Despite an ongoing strike by the IATSE stagehands union Local 8, the first preview performances of Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's drama a…
The final moments of a man's life can be profound and deep, especially when they are the final moments of one man who touched humanity in a deeply profound way, leaving his legacy to change …
The Alley Theatre's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, produced in association with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C., will feature Bowman Wrig…
Bowman Wright and Joaquina Kalukango co-star in Katori Hall's Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, which begins performances Jan. 11 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.
Sekou Laidlow will play Dr. King and Amirah Vann will play the mysterious Camae in Philadelphia Theatre Company's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, her play that imagines …
January 21, 2013 the nation pauses to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama and to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr Day. In honor of these events, CENTERSTAGE will be making 100…
The Alley Theatre's production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, produced in association with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington D.C., will feature Bowman Wrig…