Katori Hall became the first African-American woman to win the Olivier Award for Best New Play when The Mountaintop, her meditation on the last night in Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, played in London in 2009. That was impressive enough but what really got my attention is that the plays she beat out were the heavyweights Enron, Jerusalem and Red. The fact that Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett signed onto the B…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 10:59AM on November 16, 2011