Playwright Katori Hall Expresses Rage Over "Revisionist Casting" of Mountaintop With White Dr. Martin Luther King

Playbill.com:

Playwright Katori Hall broke her silence over last month's Kent State University production of her play, The Mountaintop, that double-cast the lead role of Dr. Martin Luther King with both a black and a white actor.

Director Michael Oatman, who is black, had double-cast the role of King with a black actor and a white actor for a six-performance run at the university’s Department of Pan-African Studies African Community Theater, Sept. 25-Oct. 4. The white actor was Robert Branch.