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Total Rating: 
***1/4
Opened: 
May 1, 2001
Ended: 
July 1, 2001
Country: 
USA
State: 
New York
City: 
New York
Theater Type: 
Broadway
Theater: 
Virginia Theater
Theater Address: 
245 West 52nd Street (8th Ave)
Running Time: 
3 hrs
Genre: 
Drama
Author: 
August Wilson
Director: 
Marion McClinton
Review: 

That King Hedley II has moments of soap-opera melodrama, confusing backstory, a few blatant metaphors and some time-biding patches in no way camouflages the fact that author August Wilson stands high among the world's greatest living playwrights. His facility with dialogue astonishes, as does his ability to offset lyrical scenes with nail-biting drama in an old-fashioned but rarely corny way.

Hardly need to mention that Brian Stokes Mitchell is a mesmerizing, if humorless, powerhouse, or that the other cast-members (excepting a too-actressy Leslie Uggams) are right there with him.

Parental: 
gunshots
Cast: 
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Charles Brown, Lesley Uggams, Stephen McKinley Henderson.
Other Critics: 
TOTALTHEATER Jason Clark ?
Critic: 
David Lefkowitz
Date Reviewed: 
May 2001