The Mountaintop Reviews

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Hall tackles a lot of themes in these last motel moments, and Boseman’s production humanizes the martyrdom of King all the while discussing themes like rhetoric, racial inequality, and the war on poverty. On opening night, Ellison’s performance as the charming, confident Camae stole the show, making the audience laugh with her witty comebacks and feel saddened by her more vulnerable confessions."

Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...In Katori Hall's play, "The Mountaintop" we are taken back to that time, but in a fictional way that takes us to the night before his assassination. It is that evening and he has gone back to his motel room to prepare for his next sermon. It is the Lorraine Motel, room 306, Memphis, Tennessee. The set by Kevin Rolfs is powerful in itself. It appears to be what one might expect in a cheap motel in that era. A huge room with two full size beds, a chair and a small table. There is nothing fancy about the room. It is not fitting for a man of King's stature, but would be what he would take and works well with the story being played out by Hall."

Buzz Center Stage - Highly Recommended

"...The chemistry between King and Camae is palpable, thanks to Hall's clever writing and Boseman's pas de deux directing technique."

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...Aaron Reese Boseman directed the show, the intensity of which hardly ever lets up. Though it would have been swell to see Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett play the two roles in the original Broadway production, the Invictus cast, Mikha'el Amin and Ny'ajai Ellison as the maid would be hard to top. The script loses focus toward the end when it takes on all the world's problems all at once. Then again, King, like us, lived in a world where myriad injustices eventually connect."