Her award-winning play "The Mountaintop" enjoyed a successful run on Broadway 3 years ago, after an even more enthusiastic response from audiences in London where it premiered. The fictional depiction of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr's last night, on the eve of his assassination on April 4, 1968, starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett when it debuted on Broadway, and went on to tour around the country through 2013. Now playwright Katori Hall is set to make the transition from stage to screen, and not just as a writer, but a director as well. I've learned that Hall will make her feature film directorial debut with an adaptation of her own...
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