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The Leicester venue will also present the classic musical My Fair Lady.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:24AMSunday, October 29, 2023
Plays that “rewrite” history are always intriguing to me. Positioning history as something other than a static set of dates or names or images allows you to draw lines that perhaps weren…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:40PMWednesday, October 18, 2023
In Katori Hall’s brilliant play, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. finds comfort in an unlikely source. By WHIT DAVIS
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 06:38PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
Round House Theatre stages a steady production of Katori Hall’s absorbing if uneven historical fantasy, which reimagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s final night.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:25PMThursday, October 12, 2023
In this clip from Kimber Lee's untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, Kim discusses her future with her mother Rosie. Should she stay in the muddy village she was born in, or go to America?
At the…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:31PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
In its full, unadulterated glory: the opening scene of Kimber Lee's untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play.
At the Young Vic until 4 November: https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/untitled-fck-mss-sgo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:25AMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Director of untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, Roy Alexander Weise, talks about the comedic aspects of Kimber Lee's award-winning play.
At the Young Vic from 18 September 2023: https://www.yo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:40AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
‘Very well. I will do what I must do, Mother.’
Kim is having one of those days. A terrible, very bad, no-good kind of day, and the worst part is...it all feels so familiar. Caught up in…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:22AMFriday, June 23, 2023
Playwright Katori Hall’s Olivier Award–winning drama The Mountaintop reimagines what Dr. King’s last night on Earth could have been.
Pictured above: L-R: Amanda Warren and Jon Mich…
SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 06:33PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Broadway alum Jon Michael Hill and TV's Amanda Warren star in the California production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:33AMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Broadway alum Jon Michael Hill and TV's Amanda Warren star in the California production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13AMThursday, June 1, 2023
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Patricia McGregor will direct Katori Hall's drama.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:54AMSunday, April 2, 2023
It’s late at night. There’s a thunderstorm. A man unlocks the door to a moldy motel room and steps inside. He hopes to get a little rest after a long day of travel and giving speeches. T…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 08:14PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
Hello, again, logo lovers! Today, we are taking a closer look at the key art for two of this season's biggest - literally and figuratively - musical revivals, Camelot and Sweeney Todd. One, …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:30AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis’ Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThursday, February 23, 2023
Some believe that those who suspect death is near can often feel it approaching, and in Invictus Theatre’s rendition of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. senses h…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 11, 2023
Many stage stars were honored for their work on screen when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed the winners of the 2023 Golden Globe Awards on January 10. The televised event w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:52PMFriday, October 14, 2022
Lauren Anderson, whose story is told in “Plumshuga” in Houston, talks about the show, her personal battles and storied career: “I got to the mountaintop.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:43PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Piano Lesson has returned to Broadway and officially opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 13. On The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:49PMMonday, August 1, 2022
A single night’s reckoning with racism, righteousness, and the rocky path toward justice, The Mountaintop imagines what Dr. King’s last night on Earth could have been.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:17PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Katori Hall Imagines King & a Mysterious Woman by Robert M. Gardner In “The Mountaintop,” playwright Katori Hall’s conversational dialogue makes us eager to hear more of the spirit…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 04:56PMFriday, January 7, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Due to the ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases in the D.C. region, all performances of The Mountaintop are canceled, January 21 through February 13, 2022. Directed by Nicole…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:27PMThursday, January 6, 2022
Full run of Dr. King drama called off. Next show, 'Grace,' still on.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:39PMSunday, October 31, 2021
David Harewood cast as William Buckley in James Graham’s new play of fiery 1968 debates with Gore Vidal
It was a battle royale fought between American political titans, and it played out o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMTuesday, October 12, 2021
Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, revived at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre by Roy Alexander Weise, is what happens when we examine our heroes at their most vulnerable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, October 4, 2021
Royal Exchange, ManchesterNtombizodwa Ndlovu is spellbinding in Katori Hall’s intriguing drama about an imaginary meeting between King and a maid
The Mountaintop is a bold shape-shifter of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMWednesday, June 23, 2021
Celebrating the New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division, viewers can expect archival clips of In the Heights, The Mountaintop, Sunset Boulevard, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
May 4 - 10
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
May 4, 2008: Boeing Boeing landed at the Longacre Theatre for 279 performances with an all-star cast including Mark R…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:12AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
A group of Broadway producers have come together to launch The Theatre Leadership Project, a new nonprofit aimed at providing resources to programs that seek to diversify commercial theater …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMA new group is aiming to make a sea change on Broadway by vaulting Black people into some of its most powerful positions. Broadway producers Barbara Broccoli (Once, The Band’s Visit), Li…
SOURCE: theundefeated.com at 10:03AMA new group is aiming to make a sea change on Broadway by vaulting Black people into some of its most powerful positions. Broadway producers Barbara Broccoli (Once, The Band’s Visit), Li…
SOURCE: andscape.com at 10:03AMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (2020) and a Princeton professor, writes in The New Yorker about an encounter at a fu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMSaturday, February 20, 2021
“The Mountaintop” is written by Katori Hall and produced by Eric Henry and Jerry Callistein. The online production is presented by Rockville Little Theatre, in partnership with the City …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 04:46PMFriday, February 12, 2021
To kick off 2021, Rockville Little Theatre, in cooperation with Arts on the Green, will present a live-streamed, virtual performance of “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall from the City of …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 02:43PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
By Laura W. Andruski, theater program coordinator, The Arts Barn Rockville Little Theatre in cooperation with Arts on the Green will a livestream The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s gripping re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMMonday, January 18, 2021
(Walter Rutledge’s article appeared on Playbill Online, 1/18; Photo of Arthur Mitchell by Sharon Perry.) THE GREAT AMERICAN ARTS INSTITUTION WAS BUILT ON A MODEL OF INCLUSIVENESS. On Apr…
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 02:42PMThe play by Katori Hall follows Martin Luther King, Jr. over a single night in the Memphis motel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:00AM