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New York, NY (March 07, 2015) - Layon Gray’s Kings Of Harlem, will have a special performance March 28th commemorating the day The Rens won the first World Basketball Championship.

Written and directed by Layon Gray, Kings Of Harlem is inspired by the 1939 Harlem Rens Basketball team. A story of eight men who overcame adversity to win more than 2,000 games while barnstorming throughout segregated parts of the country in the 1930s despite never being officially accepted professionally or socially. Harlem Renaissance Big Five was one one the most successful renowned all- Black professional basketball teams in the 1920s and '30s that added grace and style to the game of basketball.

The team was formed five years before the Harlem Globetrotters, and provided African-American men with the opportunity to compete against white athletes equally on the court. The Rens got their name from playing at the Renaissance Casino ballroom in Harlem, New York, where they amazed fans with their innovative and unique style of play. They toured the country competing against Black and white teams, and in the process, compiled the most impressive winning streak in Basketball history. In 1963, the entire team was inducted into the Professional Basketball Hall of Fame.

Featured in the cast are Delano Barbosa, Lamar Cheston, Thaddeus Daniels,!Melvin Huffnagle, Ade Otukoya, and Jeantique Oriol.!Author! and Director Layon Gray follows the success of his play 'Black Angels Over Tuskegee', the story of the Tuskegee Airmen now in its fifth year off-Broadway, with this next installment of African-American historical theatre.

This event will take place on March 28th at St. Luke's Theatre located in Manhattan at 308 West 46th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) It is produced by Edmund Gaynes, and Layon Gray American Theatre Company. To reserve your seats please call (212) 239-6200, or on our website at www.KingsOfHarlem.com. For more information send an email to [email protected] or call (323) 762 3488.

Media Contact:
THE LAYON GRAY EXPERIENCE, LLC
P.O. Box 20135 PACC BOX 36 New York, NY 10129 [email protected]
http://www.kingsofharlem.com/

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