The Front Porch Arts Collective's engaging revival of Katori Hall's drama comes at a propitious time.

Katori Hall's play was presented at the Pershing Square Signature Center March 24.

Signature Theatre will present a benefit reading of Pulitzer Prize winner and Signature Premiere Resident Katori Hall’s acclaimed 2009 play The Mountaintop. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Gathering at their childhood island home off the coast of Georgia, four sisters meet to create a family quilt to honor their recently deceased mother. When their reunion turns into a reading of their mother’…

Three-time Grammy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Branford Marsalis has joined the music team for A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. Marsalis will create all-new musical arrangements and orch…

Tinashe Kajese-Bolden will direct Katori Hall's play at the Atlanta theatre.

The Leicester venue will also present the classic musical My Fair Lady.

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’t previously ther…

In Katori Hall’s brilliant play, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. finds comfort in an unlikely source. By WHIT DAVIS

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.

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 Young Vic until 4 N…

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-sgon-play Kim is havin…

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.youngvic.org/whats-on/…

‘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 a never-ending cycl…

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 Michael Hill in The Mou…

Broadway alum Jon Michael Hill and TV's Amanda Warren star in the California production.

Broadway alum Jon Michael Hill and TV's Amanda Warren star in the California production.

Patricia McGregor will direct Katori Hall's drama.

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. Tomorrow is a big day…

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, I think is very succ…

The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis’ Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.

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 his end is coming.  …

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 was hosted by Jerrod …

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.”

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, stars Samuel L. Jack…

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.

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 spirited interaction betwe…

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 A. Watson, the prod…

Full run of Dr. King drama called off. Next show, 'Grace,' still on.

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 on screen in a series…

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.

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 a play. Conceived a…

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.

 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 Rylance, Christine Ba…

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 leadership. The orga…

A 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), Lia Vollack (MJ the Mu…

A 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), Lia Vollack (MJ the Mu…

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 fundraiser between Dr.…

“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 of Gaithersburg (Art…

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 Gaithersburg’s Art…

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 reimagining of events …

(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 April 3, 1968, Dr. Mart…

The play by Katori Hall follows Martin Luther King, Jr. over a single night in the Memphis motel.

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You have to be a heck of a talent to go to Columbia, or Harvard, or Juilliard. But to go to all three? That’s what Katori Hall did.  And her first play after graduation from Juilliard, The Mountaintop,  won…

The Mountaintop Olivier Award winner and Starz' P-Valley creator shares her career journey in Measured in Love.

The Tina book writer and The Mountaintop playwright adapts her play Pussy Valley into an sizzling and raw show for Starz.

STARZ is set to premiere P-Valley, the new series based on creator Katori Hall's (The Mountaintop, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) play Pussy Valley.

L.A. Theatre Works has released six titles to promote Black voices.

As he returns to his role in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, the actor, writer and director talks about Black Lives Matter, Martin Luther King and the state of UK theatre This is the third time you’ve played…

Virtual reading of Katori Hall's acclaimed play, The Mountaintop, streamed from 10 June with donations supporting the legal costs incurred by protesters. The post The Mountaintop virtual reading – funds to su…

Roy Alexander Weise reunites actors from his 2016 production of Katori Hall’s play to raise funds for the legal costs of protesters Katori Hall’s acclaimed play The Mountaintop, set on the eve of Martin Lu…

★★★★ The author of ‘Hurt Village’ and ‘The Mountaintop’ spreads her wings with a serious relationship- and family-focused drama The post The Hot Wing King: Katori Hall Serves Up Love and Laughs …

When a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. is set at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on the evening of April 3, 1968, it’s easy to assume that you know where the play is going. But The Mountaintop, by Katori Ha…

The Mountaintop by Katori Hall is a remarkably affecting play full of humanity, faith, unexpected humor, and the Almighty. Strikingly directed by two time Helen Hayes award recipient Kevin S. McAllister, The Mo…

“Can’t we slow down the groove just a little bit,” a young, gasping Tina Turner (Adrienne Warren) begs her hard-driving soon-to-be-husband early on in Tina – The Tina Tuner Musical. “So when I start t…

Tony Award-nominated Producer Matthew Weaver (Rock of Ages) and Jeffrey Tick (former owner of Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater), alongside new general producing partner Richard Gay (5Pack Entertainment founder, a…

Marvel’s resident god of chaos is about to sow discord on a very different stage. Before he steps back into the role of Loki for the character’s eponymous Disney+ series, Tom Hiddleston is making his Broadw…

Have we reached the promised land he died fighting for? If he were still alive today, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be 90. It's been 51 years since his assassination, and it's a…

An A-list lineup of stars will make Broadway dreams come true next month. Presenters have been announced for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards, scheduled for June 9 at Radio City Music Hall. The event will be broad…

Next season at NextStop Theatre Company will feature a whole lotta musicals, as well as some farce, an adaptation of a literary classic, and Katori Hall’s celebrated fiction about Martin Luther King, The Moun…

Scott Rudin announced that heis producing a two-hour documentary feature based on his hit Broadway play To Kill a Mockingbirdfor HBO,according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. […] So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anyth…

The night before Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination on the balcony outside of his Memphis motel room, Katori Hall’s play The Mountaintop takes us inside Room 306 where he was staying.

A mountain of a man? Tracey Sinclair writes on the nuanced performances in the touring production of Katori Hall's play. The post Review: The Mountaintop at Northern Stage appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

Katori Hall's The Mountaintop invites us to step into the private life of Martin Luther King for one night one that hangs suspended in time, between his achievements and his final breath.

Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech. As threats to his life mounted, King seemed resigned to his fate. “I’m not concerned ab…

The award-winning director of The Mountaintop has helmed Nine Night at the National. He tells Tim Bano how a chance trip to

Sat, April 14 @ George Mason University's Center for the Arts, presented by George Mason University's Center for the Arts -- The Mountaintop, Katori Hall imagines what may have transpired between the legendary …

On April 3, 1968, a rainy night in Memphis, Tennessee, in a dingy hotel, there was a man working on a speech. This man had missed birthdays and anniversaries in pursuit of his dream. He was a man who didn’…

50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot on the balcony outside of his room at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. His death at age 39 still reverberates throughout the country, which still battles for racial,…

Katori Hall promises the true story of the singer, who she describes as a shining exampleWhile the arts has acknowledged its problem with diversity and talks about making things better, there remains a lack of …

Gilbert Glenn Brown and Karen Malina White co-star.

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