- Chris Davis
- Katori Hall, expressive and aggressive
It seems like ages since I met Katori Hall in Hell’s Kitchen for gourmet pie and good conversation. The Mountaintop had just won the Olivier for best new play, but the Broadway production hadn’t yet been cast. Even then she understood the risks one takes making an iconic figure like Dr. Martin Luther King the central character in your play. And she knew American audiences might not show her play the same kind of love she’d gotten from the Brits.
As she predicted, The Mountaintop‘s Broadway premiere received mixed reviews. But, to borrow an idea from the show, there’s life after the curtain goes down on Broadway, and in a recent communication Hall offered audiences this
