Signature Theatre presented a benefit reading of Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall's The Mountaintop March 24 at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Brandon J. Dirden was at the helm.
The reading featured Emmy and Grammy winner Blair Underwood as Martin Luther King Jr. and Emmy nominee Nicole Beharie as Camae, a maid at the Memphis motel King stayed in the night before his assassination.
See photos from the reading in the gallery below.
Dominique Morisseau
Moses Ingram
Naturi Naughton-Lewis
Terra Chaney, Nicole Beharie, Blair Underwood, and Brandon J. Dirden
Michael B. Washington and Amber Iman
Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Blair Underwood
Emily Shooltz
Terra Chaney, Blair Underwood, and Nicole Beharie
Nicole Beharie
Katori Hall
Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood and Nicole Beharie
The Mountaintop premiered at Theatre503 in the U.K., then transferred to the West End, and won the Olivier Award for Best New Play. In 2011, Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett led the work's Broadway premiere.
Signature鈥檚 benefit reading was sponsored by Bruce Goldfarb & Ellen McCabe, Nina Matis & Alan Gosule, Doug & Kathy Chittenden, Lori Kramer & Stephen Fraidin, and Okapi Partners.
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