Acclaimed radio theatre company L.A. Theatre Works, will present Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop,” a 2010 Olivier Award-winning play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on earth, at Jones Theatre in Daggy Hall.
Performances on Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 7:30 p.m. are co-presented by WSU Performing Arts and WSU’s Office of Equity and Diversity as part of the university’s annual MLK program.
“The Mountaintop” has been praised as “wondrous, hilarious and heartbreaking” by London’s Independent and “a powerful, poetic take on [King’s] legacy” by the Los Angeles Times.
Produced by Susan Albert Loewenberg and directed by Shirley Jo Finney, the show. stars Gilbert Glenn Brown as Dr. King and Karen Malina White as Camae, the enigmatic maid
Admission is free for current WSU students and can be picked up in advance at the Beasley Coliseum box office, M-F, 10am-2pm (closed 1/15/18) or at the door in Daggy Hall. Reserved seating costs $18 adults, $15 seniors (ages 60 and up) and $9 non-WSU students and youth.
Tickets are on sale now at all TicketsWest outlets, including online at TicketsWest.com, by phone at 800-325-SEAT, and in person at WSU’s Beasley Coliseum. The Daggy Hall box office will open for ticket sales and will-call beginning two hours before each performance.
Convenient parking for both performances will be available without permits or fees in the Daggy Hall parking garage and in the Green 3 lot directly across the street from Daggy Hall.
This production contains some mature language.
