Negro Ensemble Company to Host Staged Reading of SEARCHING FOR WILLIE LYNCH

The renowned Negro Ensemble Company, Inc will present a staged-reading at the Signature Theatre of Layon Gray's powerful new play Searching For Willie Lynch.

" On the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712, a slave owner named Willie Lynch allegedly read a letter to teach his methods to slave owners on how to keep black people divided for 300 years. The play centers around three families in 2008, 1965 and 1925 that have lived in the same house over the years and how a door could be a portal to the past and a celebration to the future." Layon Gray is the writer and director of the acclaimed Off - Broadway hit play Black Angels Over Tuskegee about the Tuskegee Airmen. Currently in it's 7th year at St. Luke Theatre in midtown. The reading is apart of the NEC 2016 Reading Series celebrating the voices of black male playwrights.

Searching For Willie Lynch will perform March 20, 2016 - 7:30pm at the Pershing Square Signature Center 480 West 42nd St. A talk back hosted by NEC Artistic Director Charles Weldon will be after the reading followed by a reception. Ticket Prices Are: $20.00 General Admission; $15.00 Seniors/Students/Groups of 10 or More. For tickets call The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. Office at 212-582-5860 Purchase Tickets @ Ticket Central via the website: www.ticketcentral.com Call 212-279-4200; in person at 216 W 42nd Street (12-8pm daily) or to purchase tickets through NEC visit website @ necinc.org.