'Hurt Village': Katori Hall's latest recalls 'Raisin'

Toccara Castleman

REVIEW - Through its raw portrayal of a black family enduring racial strife, economic hardships and gentrification in the 21st century, Memphis playwright Katori Hall's latest production, 'Hurt Village' begs the question, what happens to a dream deferred? ..

WATCH: Alicia Keys on black Broadway

Ron Allen

VIDEO - Keys co-produced the Broadway play 'Stick Fly', in addition to composing the music that fills the transitions between scenes...

Grio's 100 slideshow: Trailblazers in the arts

Tamy Cozier

SLIDESHOW - These 10 trailblazers are making their mark in areas of the arts where people of color traditionally have less representation...

theGrio's 100: Katori Hall, rising Broadway theatrical star

Keosha Johnson

theGRIO's 100 - Katori Hall's recent play 'The Mountaintop' is a fictional civil rights-era piece set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis the night before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated...

Kenny Leon’s ‘Mountaintop’ finishes Broadway run with a profit

theGrio

Kenny Leon's production 'The Mountaintop' (inspired by Martin Luther King's last days and written by Katori Hall), has had great success on Broadway...

'Mountaintop' creator portrays 'human' MLK

Abdul Ali

theGRIO Q&A - theGrio caught up with the playwright, who's currently traveling, to discuss the inspiration behind her new Broadway show starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett...

'Mountaintop' portrays a more down to earth MLK

Abdul Ali

REVIEW - 'The Mountaintop' is definitely not your standard narrative of Dr. King as a public figure or the black saint who much of civil rights lore makes him out to be...