Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration

This brilliant depiction of the life and career of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. begins at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as Dr. King answers a young colleague's question with an anecdote from the Montgomery bus boycott. The play instantly shifts to Montgomery and, over the next forty-five minutes, brings to life all of the dignity, courage, devotion, and humanity of a most remarkable American leader.

Both the external events in Dr. King's career (the Selma and Birmingham demonstrations, the 1962 March on Washington, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, etc.) and his wide-ranging thoughts and opinions (on fear, non-violence, his children, the police, Malcolm X, and other topics) are included in Dr. King's Dream as is his soaring "I Have A Dream" speech. Yet for all the historic and specific incidents, what emerges is the spirit of a man dedicated to racial equality through non-violence, dedicated to an ideal and to a dream.