The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston to headline New Horizon’s annual fundraising concert

by Genea L. Webb, For New Pittsburgh Courier For 32 years, New Horizon Theater Inc., has been showcasing what many call top-notch nationwide Black tal­ent for Pittsburgh’s African Ameri­can theater community. “We just keep moving along. We make it work. We have to make it work,” said Joyce Meggerson-Moore, New Horizon Theater Inc., chairper­son. “We still produce quality plays. People tell me that they haven’t seen anything they didn’t like, so that’s good. Then COVID came and we didn’t have a consistent theater space. We make adjustments as we go along and we have many multi-tal­ented people who do more than just one thing. A lot of the theaters now have one person who does this and one person who does that and that’s good, too, but some of our main peo­ple like Herb Newsome, Eileen Mor­ris, Layon Gray, they can write plays, direct and do programs. Even me, I write proposals and work the door, do publicity and that’s what we have to do and I think that’s what helped us out. We just keep moving along.” New Horizon Theater was founded in 1992 with the mission to bring the Greater Pittsburgh area consistent, high-quality, cultural events reflect­ing the...