Sunday, June 9, 2013
Black directors and actors have made it to the mainstream but Lenny Henry says progress should be even fasterThe barriers may not be crashing down, but this summer the West End's slow progre…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:45AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Ambassador Theatre Group has bought its first venue outside the UK – Broadway's biggestBroadway's biggest theatre – currently home to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark – has fallen into Br…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:49AMMonday, May 20, 2013
The Ambassador Theatre Group, a British theater owner and producer that owns nearly 40 theaters in the U.K, has acquired Broadway’s Foxwoods Theatre from entertainment company Live Nat…
Linked From Broadway.com at 06:35PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone and Oscar nominee Angela Bassett will make magic in American Horror Story: Coven, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The third season of Ryan Murphy&rsquo…
Linked From Broadway.com at 11:18AMFriday, May 3, 2013
Lindsey Ferrentino's new play Moonlight on the Bayou will have a staged reading today, May 3rd, 430pm at The Marilyn Monroe Theatre in New York 115 E. 15th St. The reading is directed by Pat…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:22AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Lindsey Ferrentino's new play Moonlight on the Bayou will have a staged reading this Friday, May 3rd, 430pm at The Marilyn Monroe Theatre in New York 115 E. 15th St. The reading is directed …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:55PMSunday, April 28, 2013
“The Mountaintop,” at TheaterWorks Hartford through May 5, takes place in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assass…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:49AMThursday, April 11, 2013
The Mountaintop is an award-winning play about the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died. But some critics don't love playwright Katori Hall's portrayal of the civil rights icon as a regul…
Linked From National Public Radio at 03:07PM- Luis Caballero arrives, wearing a wool scarf coiled around his neck. The morning, April 3rd, was unseasonably cold. He is wired with energy for our interview in the chilly, white-walled ba…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMMonday, April 8, 2013
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 conscien…
Linked From Washington Post at 07:42PMArena 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 ho…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
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…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PMFriday, April 5, 2013
The show: Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" at Hartford's TheaterWorks
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:46PMChad Bauman, a fixture at Arena Stage since 2007, will become Managing Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater effective June 1, the Company announced today. “Chad’s experience in helpin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMThursday, April 4, 2013
Northampton’s Royal and Derngate has announced James Dacre as its new artistic director. Dacre previously directed the world premiere of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, which beat Jerusale…
Linked From The Stage at 01:32AMJames Dacre, whose credits include Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-winning play The Mountaintop, has been appointed the new artistic director of the Royal & Derngate theatres in Northampto…
Linked From WhatsOnStage at 01:07AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
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 …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PMCourt Theatre’s 2013-2014 season, with five plays about embattled souls, has just been announced. It will include: — “The Mountaintop” (Sept. 5-Oct. 6): A play by Katori Hall, seen o…
Linked From Chicago Sun-Times at 06:08PMCourt Theatre, the longstanding Equity company in residence at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, will stage the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Broadway play about Martin Luther King…
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 02:51PMCourt Theatre in Hyde Park has announced its 2013-2014 season (also its fifty-ninth), which notably features the Chicago premiere of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner “Water By The Spoonful&#…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 01:40PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Terry Teachout reflects on the latest TCG list of Top Ten Plays Produced in American nonprofit theatres:
it's easy to forget that the latter-day dominance of the small-cast
play is a fair…
Linked From The Playgoer at 11:55AMMonday, April 1, 2013
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…
Linked From Hartford Courant at 10:10AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
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 …
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 01:54PMRegional theater offerings are heating up! In this week’s Countrywide Guide, Broadway.com highlights five hot tickets, including the world premiere of the Broadway-bound musical Big Fi…
Linked From Broadway.com at 01:26PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
I am not a person who laughs a lot at the theatre. I’m a Yanky, first of all. Second, I am usually thinking about what is going on. It is rare that a full fledged bark leaves my mouth …
Linked From Usher Nonsense at 03:58PMMonday, January 28, 2013
The lack of stagecraft in this production deprives the play of its full power.
Linked From Philly.com at 12:16PMSaturday, January 26, 2013
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 …
Linked From Hartford Courant at 01:12PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
A gorgeous new space deserves an equally stunning production. Everyman Theatre has pulled off this challenging feat with its sparkling renovation of the old Town Theater movie palace and i…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
The Mountaintop
Written by Katori Hall; directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Through Feb. 24 at Center Stage
Linked From citypaper.com at 03:32PMMonday, January 21, 2013
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…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:47PMThursday, January 17, 2013
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 chang…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:56PM 
