Signature Theatre Company will extend its revival of August Wilson's King Hedley II one additional week, to April 22. Directed by Derrick Sanders, King Hedley II began previews on February 20 and opened on March 11 at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space. The original run, part of Signature's $15 ticket initiative, had been sold out for week. Tickets for the extension week will be $65.
The cast for King Hedley II includes Russell Hornsby Jitney at Second Stage in the title role, along with Cherise Boothe as Tonya Blues for an Alabama Sky at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Lynda Gravatt as Ruby Intimate Apparel at Roundabout Theatre Company, Stephen McKinley Henderson as Elmore Seven Guitars at Signature, Curtis McClarin as Mister Drowning Crow at Manhattan Theatre Club and Lou Myers as Stool Pigeon The Piano Lesson on Broadway.
Set in a backyard in the decaying Hill District of Pittsburgh, King Hedley II follows the characters created by Wilson in Seven Guitars. A woman is tormented by a secret she has kept for 36 years, while her only son returns home after serving time for murder to find a neighborhood riddled with crime, poverty and broken families. King's epic struggle to survive is at the center of this poetic portrayal of life in the inner city during the 1980s.
