King Hedley II

Director Ron OJ Parson continues his trek through the works of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with the King Hedley II. Kelvin Roston Jr. stars in the title role as an ex-convict whose modest dream of opening a video store remains painfully out of reach in the trickle-down world of Ronald Reagan’s America. Parson has a gift for teasing out Wilson’s rich, musical language in ways that makes these plays really sing.