Play Reading Monday

Monday, October 26, 2026

7PM

Directed by Don Wilson Glenn

During a dinner party celebrating African American Professor Charles Watts’s Pulitzer Prize for The Eyes of Peace, homeless drifter Terrence Barlow arrives at Charles and Nina Odood Watts’s Central Park West apartment. The guests, white professors Eric and Jennifer Engles, are already tense over Charles’s death threats and their own marital problems. Only Charles knows Terrence, a former Harvard classmate with a brilliant mind and dangerous past, deepening the mystery of why he has come. Tensions rise with the arrival of Nina’s biracial daughter Lisa and her boyfriend Seth, leading to life-and-death stakes and a surprise ending.

Attendance is free with registration.

Meet the Playwright

Levy Lee Simon is a multiple award-winning writer, actor, director, and producer, Levy Lee Simon is originally from Harlem USA, and a graduate of the University of Iowa Playwright’s Workshop, MFA. He is the author of over twenty plays, which have received productions in the US and the Caribbean: The Robey Theatre Company, Greenway Arts Alliance, National Black Theatre Festival, The Workshop Theatre, New Federal Theatre, Algonquin Productions, NJoy Productions, St. Croix- Center Stage, The Freedom Theatre – Phila., Karamu Theatre – Cleveland, Circle Repertory Theatre, and The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players, to name a few. With staged readings at: The Labyrinth Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center, New Jersey Repertory Theatre and many more.