‘The Mountaintop’ to pull the curtain back on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at St. Pete’s American Stage

Katori Jackson’s two-character play imagines an encounter in a motel room the night before his death.

By David Warner on Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 4:38 pm

LBJ Library photo by Yoichi Okamoto

Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington D.C. on Jan. 18, 1964.

“I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those tragically prescient words in Memphis on April 3, 1968 in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers—the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel.

Katori Jackson’s play imagines an encounter in the motel room the night before his death, in which the civil rights leader shares his hopes and dreams with a sassy chambermaid. The two-character play has been widely praised for Hall’s “warts-and-all” portrayal of King as an ordinary man who did extraordinary things.

Tickets to see “The Mountaintop” at American Stage in St. Petersburg on select nights Nov. 6-24 are still available and start at $23.

Event Details

The Mountaintop

Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m. Continues through Nov. 24

American Stage Theatre Company 163 3rd St N., St. Petersburg St. Pete

Buy Tickets

$23 & up

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