By SHARON EBERSON Knowing the destiny of the unwilling participants in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment doesn’t ease the heartbreak stirred by the men of Feed the Beast. Writer, director and costar Layon Gray has the uncanny ability to create… Read More ›
New Horizon Theater returns to Layon Gray’s history plays with the regional debut of his new work about a shameful chapter from history. Layon Gray’s Feed the Beast, opening February 13, 2025, at the O’Reilly Theater, spans 40 years and… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Black Angels Over Tuskegee, perhaps the best-known of works by Layon Gray, last week opened the 33rd season of New Horizon Theater, the writer-director-actor’s production home in Pittsburgh. After a popular off-Broadway run in 2010, the current… Read More ›
New Horizon Theater will open the 2023-24 season with Webeime, a play by award-winning writer-director Layon Gray about the choices that brought a death-row inmate to his final day. The play will run September 28 through October 1, 2023, at… Read More ›
By Sharon Eberson Willie Lynch may have existed. And if he did, he may have addressed Virginia plantation owners in 1712 about his blueprint for managing enslaved Africans. His method, he vowed, would provide the means to oppress Black people… Read More ›
