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‘Gem of the Ocean’ at Court: Setting a spiritual table for Wilson’s canon in a haven of peace

Sep 27, 2015 – 5:32 pm
Gem of the Ocean at Court

Review: August Wilson’s decade-by-decade portrait gallery of the African-American experience across the 20th century begins just two generations after slavery, indeed with characters who were born into shackles. To grasp the cultural resonance and progression of the last nine plays in the sequence, it’s essential to know the first one, “Gem of the Ocean,” which now unfolds in a perceptive and finely textured production directed by Ron OJ Parson at Court Theatre. ★★★★

‘The Mountaintop’ at Court: In Dr. King’s final hours, coffee served from a cup of revelation

Sep 17, 2013 – 4:39 pm
David Alan Anderson and Lisa Beasley in 'The Mountaintop' by Katori Hall at Court Theatre 2013 (Michael Brosilow)

Review: On his last night on earth, exhausted from his civil rights campaign, the threat of assassination constantly before him, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps hinted at a premonition of his own end when he declared that he had “been to the mountaintop” and “seen the Promised Land.” Playwright Katori Hall spins that intimation into luminous fantasy in “The Mountaintop,” a transmigrational arabesque for two players that now irradiates the stage at Court Theatre. ★★★★