Bid on this awesome August Wilson Broadway production of King Hedley II at The Signature Theater, Saturday, April 21, 2007, 8:00 P.M.

The New York Times says that "this gritty, strongly cast production King Hedley II seems to have found the rhythm it largely lacked when it opened on Broadway in 2001. . . .[T]he new production moves more comfortably from casual dialogue into dense monologue, and boasts a hot-blooded center in Russell Hornsby, who plays the title role with a simmering ferocity."

The Times says "The past impinges with particular weight upon the characters of King Hedley II, which reverberates darkly with echoes from events depicted in Seven Guitars, set roughly four decades earlier. The Signature’s smart decision to present both plays this season allows us to see with unusual clarity how powerfully Mr. Wilson illuminated the destructive legacies of history — personal and cultural — in the lives of African-Americans over the course of the 20th century. Two characters from Seven Guitars reappear in this play. King’s mother Ruby (a sly and earthy Lynda Gravatt) has returned from an itinerant life as a singer to stake a final claim to motherhood. Her neighbor Stool Pigeon (Lou Myers), known as Canewell in the earlier play, has become the district’s resident evangelist, proselytizing from his battered stoop about the coming of a new messiah."