“I just want this to look more like basketball,” he says, half-laughing. “What are you doing? Hold on.” He positions himself between actors Chris Perfetti and Glenn Davis, body checking the latter to demonstrate the physicality he wants to see in this one-on-one matchup. Kenny Leon’s 6-foot frame rises from his chair. And with ‘King James,’ I had a longer than usual time to do that.” It’s a nice place to be if you can afford it. “There’s actually this opportunistic place where you can engage with it as a stranger. I do that, even without pandemics,” Joseph says later. “To me, it’s great to put down a script for a long period of time and then come back to it. Shapiro, departed Steppenwolf a new director, Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon, was brought in Steppenwolf completed a $54-million expansion that includes a new 400-seat theater-in-the-round and LeBron picked up his fourth NBA championship ring. In the intervening time, “King James” was rewritten the original director, Anna D. Two years later, the play is finally set to open in Chicago on Sunday, with the Taper run beginning June 1. But just as rehearsals were about to begin, the pandemic shut everything down. The world premiere co-production of “King James” was originally scheduled for May 2020 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, followed by a run at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. While the play tracks James’ career path from his rookie season with the Cleveland Cavaliers to his controversial move to the Miami Heat, then his triumphant return to Ohio, “King James” mines more universal themes, using basketball as a lens through which to view race, the ups and downs of friendship and the power of sports to bring people together. After what may have been the longest timeout in history, “King James” is back on the boards as the team enters into its third week of rehearsals. In the end, this basketball court drama will be resolved in the pages of the new play “King James,” which revolves around the invisible presence of Lakers star LeBron James and the evolution of two fans in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, over a span of 12 years. “Before we go on,” he says, breaking the silence, “can we look at a couple of these lines?” What happens next could change the scene dramatically, depending on what Joseph does. At this moment, all eyes are on Rajiv Joseph.Īfter spending most of the afternoon on the sidelines, he steps forward, coming face to face with two guys shooting hoops who just moments ago were engaged in a heated standoff.
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