More than a half century ago, on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. took the stage at Mason Temple, a Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, to deliver what ...
In “The Mountaintop,” on the last night of his life, King is yearning for some rest, some inspiration, and a few Pall Mall cigarettes, when he receives a mysterious visitor in the guise of a motel ...
On the surface, “The Mountaintop” seems like a straightforward play, a two-hander about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Camae, the motel maid who brings him coffee one stormy night. But the story is ...
It’s tempting to imagine what a man might have been thinking during his last hours on earth. When that man is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his speech the day before his death was eerily prescient, ...
Samuel L. Jackson will make his Broadway debut this fall, starring as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Taking place on April 3, 1968, the production is described as a ...