InThe Mountaintop,playwrightKatori Hall(P-Valley) wants audiences to seeDr.
Martin Luther King Jr.as a man, not a saint or a martyr.
It only came to Broadway in 2011 following an award-winning run in London.
Amanda Warren and Jon Michael Hill in ‘The Mountaintop’.isaak berliner
But it’s a deeply moving, provocative play, marked with magical realism.
It confronts the notion of legacy and the perils of placing any one person on a pedestal.
It looks remarkably exhausting, not even accounting for the emotional toll of the material.
Amanda Warren and Jon Michael Hill in ‘The Mountaintop’.isaak berliner
Warren crackles with irreverence and an inner fire from the moment she steps on stage.
Now, it’s a call to action a reminder that people are going to keep dropping that baton.
Amanda Warren and Jon Michael Hill in ‘The Mountaintop’.frank ishman
Jon Michael Hill in ‘The Mountaintop’.isaak berliner
