(CLOSED June 21, 2014)

Layon Gray’s “THE GIRLS OF SUMMER ‘, winner 2006 NAACP Award for Best Play and 2011 National Black Theatre Festival Mainstage Selection, returns to New York April 2014!

 “In 1945 Chicago, a group of Negro women are assembled to play an exhibition game against the all white reigning champions Rockford Peaches. Two weeks into the training the coach of the All-Negro female baseball team is found dead. Racism, deceit, betrayal are brought to light as this powerful drama unveils the hidden story beneath the surface.” Written and directed by Layon Gray, writer of the Off-Broadway hit play “Black Angels Over Tuskegee”, THE GIRLS OF SUMMER is produced by The Layon Gray Experience, LLC opens at the Actors Temple Theatre.

THE GIRLS OF SUMMER opens April 9th through May 28, 2014 , playing Wednesdays at 8PM.