CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY and More Set for Crossroads 2025-2026 Season
The season will also feature GENESIS FESTIVAL OF NEW VOICES & NEW PLAYS and more.
Crossroads Theatre Company is launching its 47th season celebrating two new productions of iconic stories from the diaspora, along with a lineup of new plays from the multigenerational cohort of contemporary storytellers. This year's lineup of new productions includes the following:
CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
Written by Lynn Nottage
2X Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright
Directed by Nataki Garrett Myers
Seventeen-year-old Ernestine Crump growing up and navigating the social and political tensions of 1950's Brooklyn. Following the passing of their beloved mother, Ernestine and her sister, Ermina, must cope with their loss, the family's move from Florida, the disruption that comes with the introduction of progressive Aunt Lily, and their father's sudden marriage to Gerte, a white German immigrant, amidst the social and political tensions of the Great Migration.
October 23 - November 23, 2025
GENESIS FESTIVAL OF NEW VOICES & NEW PLAYS
Under the direction of dramaturg Sydné Mahone, the 36th season of The Genesis Festival of New Plays will include the expansion of The Genesis Festival which has been an incubator for the discovery of new storytellers from the African diaspora. The Festival has introduced new works from a long list of celebrated artists including, Ntozake Shange, Lynn Nottage, Anna Deavare Smith, Richard Wesley, Ruby Dee, Kathleen McGhee- Anderson and Samm Art-Williams.
April 2026
SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD
Written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona
Directed by Ricardo Khan
In Collaboration with John Kani
One man's death becomes another's salvation in this indictment of South Africa's Apartheid system which lasted through the 1990s. Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, was written by South African playwright Athol Fugard in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona. Both actors/playwrights, Kani and Ntshona received Tony's in 1975, for their starring roles in the play's Broadway production. The Crossroads production of Sizwe is in collaboration with John Kani, the last remaining member of the writing team. Performances begin May 19, 2026
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Neruda Songs and Poulenc's Gloria New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/17-4/17) |
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Oliver Algonquin Arts Theatre (10/25-10/25) |
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42nd Street Algonquin Arts Theatre (5/08-5/16) |
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Destroying David Sieminski Theater (10/23-10/25) |
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Handel's Messiah Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (12/20-12/20) |
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A Change of Position New Jersey Repertory Company (7/30-8/23) |
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Bria Skonberg Morris Museum (8/26-8/26) |
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ODC/Dance Stockton University Performing Arts Center (10/09-10/09) |
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Merry, Merry Mischief: Holiday Classics The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (12/19-12/19) |
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Neruda Songs and Poulenc's Gloria State Theatre New Jersey (4/18-4/18) |