This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3rd is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.

Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May 2016.

Directed by Roger Guenveur Smith

Aja Naomi King as Camae

Larry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther King

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