PITT BRINGS THE MEETING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND MALCOLM X TO PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 11 — Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X will finally come face-to-face this Thursday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. in a staging of "The Meeting" in the University of Pittsburgh's William Pitt Union Assembly Room, Oakland.
Pitt's Black Action Society will sponsor the Washington, D.C.-based Pin Points Theatre production in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday observance. The performance is free to the public.
"The Meeting" dramatizes what might have happened if Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had been locked in a hotel room together at some point before their deaths. The play, written by Jeff Stetson, received eight 1987 NAACP Theatre Awards, the Louis B. Mayer Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting and six New York AUDELCO nominations.
Pin Points Theatre, established in 1978, has received awards for its unique "edutainment" at more than 3,000 performances throughout the United States.
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