Reviews – Theater

L-R: Jason Dirden, Glynn Turman, Damon Gupton, Keith David and Lillias White in August Wilson’s "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom," directed by Phylicia Rashad, playing through October 16, 2016, at Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center. For tickets and information, please visit CenterTheatreGroup.org or call (213) 628-2772. Contact: CTGMedia@ctgla.org/ (213) 972-7376. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

South Coast Repertory presents “All the Way” by Robert Schenkkan, directed by Marc Masterson. Cast: Matthew Arkin (Stanley Levison/John McCormak/Michael Schwerner. Seymour Trammell/Tailor/Edwin King/Television Announcer/Party Goer), Hugo Armstrong (Lyndon Baines Johnson), Larry Bates (Martin Luther King, Jr.), Jordan Bellow (Bob Moses/David Dennis), Robert Curtis Brown (J. Edgar Hoover/Senator Robert Byrd), JD Cullum (Hubert Humphrey), Gregg Daniel (Roy Wilkins/Shoe Shiner/Aaron Henry), Nike Doukas (Lady Bird Johnson/Katharine Graham), Bo Foxworth (Robert McNamara/James Eastland/William McCulloch/Barber/Governor Johnson/Network Correspondent), Lynn Gallagher (Muriel Humphrey/Lurleen Wallace/Secretary/New Orleans Announcer/Woman), Christian Henley (Stockily Carmichael/James Harrison/James Earl Chaney), Hal Landon Jr. (Strom Turmond/Everett Dirksen), Tracey A. Leigh (Coretta Scott King/Fannie Lou Hamer), Jeff Marlow (Governor George Wallace/James Corman/Mike Mansfield/Walter Reuther), Rosney Mauger (Ralph Abernathy/Butler/MFDP Leader), William Francis McGuire (Deke Delach/Judge Howard Smith, Carl Sanders, Andrew Goodman), Larry John Meyers (Richard Russell/Emanuel Celler/Deputy Prince/King of Norway), Darin Singleton (Walter Jenkins/William Colmer). Segerstrom Stage, September 2 - October 2, 2016