October 2025 – Page 3 – Theater Mirror

Boston theaters have long served as a testing ground for new musicals headed to Broadway. Recent major works like Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2015), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2011), and Waitress (2015)all premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square in recent years before becoming sensations on the Great White Way. It’s a tradition that reaches as far back as 1943 (Oklahoma!) if not even earlier, and endures as recently as 2018 (Moulin Rouge! The Musical! and Jagged Little Pill both lit up Boston area stages that year).

Dominic Carter as MLK in *Front Porch Arts Collective*‘s ‘The Mountaintop’

The Mountaintop – Written by Katori Hall. Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent. Presented by The Front Porch Arts Collective in collaboration with Suffolk University at Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St., Boston, through October 12.

By Shelley A. Sackett

Playwright Katori Hall couldn’t have asked for a better production of his Olivier Award-winning play, The Mountaintop, than the one it is receiving at the Modern Theater at Suffolk University. Under Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s pitch-perfect direction, its two stars, Dominic Carter and Kiera Prusmack, deliver impeccable performances as civil rights and social justice leader, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Camae, a motel employee. Ben Lieberson’s set is straightforward and literal, a classic 1960s era, no frills, wood-paneled motel room.

Month: October 2025

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‘The Mountaintop’ Is A Gripping Rendering of MLK’s Last Night