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"Gorgeously acted and deeply felt!"
- Marilyn Stasio, Variety
"A forceful production that concludes Signature's season, dedicated to Mr. Wilson's work on a stirring note."
- Charles Isherwood, NY Times
"Russell Hornsby plays the title role with a simmering ferocity... an artfully contained but heart-generating performance."
- Charles Isherwood, NY Times
"Wilson's dialogue resonates like a lyrical aria. It has the incontestable force and drive of a master dramatist."
- Simon Saltzman, Curtain Up
"Lynda Gravatt is an irresistible force of nature as King's eartly mother, Ruby."
- Marilyn Stasio, Variety
"Cherise Boothe is marvelously affecting."
- Andy Propst, American Theatre Web
"Stephen McKinley Henderson is a sly, charismatic Elmore. He feasts on Wilson's banquet of words, turning long monologues on his philosophy of life and chance into street-corner arias."
- David Sheward, Backstage
"The performances by the ensemble couldn't be bettered!"
- Frank Scheck, NY Post
"Lou Myers brings a terrific sense of gravitas to the sometimes lunatic, sometimes intensely concentrated Stool Pigeon."
- Andy Propst, American Theatre Web
"Curtis McClarin is a marvelously edgy Mister."
- Andy Propst, American Theatre Web
"David Gallo has designed a stunningly impressionistic set."
- Simon Saltzman, Curtain Up
"The Signature Theatre Company has accomplished numerous acts of reclamation over the years, but none of them has been as dramatic as its current production of King Hedley II."
- David Barbour, Light and Sound America
"King Hedley II is sterlingly and stirringly played by Russell Hornsby, with seething but staunchly contained anger, as real as that scar on his face."
- John Simon, Bloomberg News
"Wilson's portrait of 1980's hopelessness is revealed here to be among the strongest entries in the playwright's decade-by-decade survey of African-American life."
- Adam Feldman, Time Out NY
"Under the sensitive and detailed direction of Derrick Sanders, King Hedley II now looks like an overlooked masterpiece."
- David Barbour, Light and Sound America
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