Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran André De Shields appears on Crossroads Theatre Company virtual stage to present excerpts of his musical Haarlem Nocturne that will be interspersed with his reflections about creating the work, co-writing, directing and starring in the production.
Tony® Award winning actress Melba Moore comes home to Crossroads Theatre Company for an encore performance of Melba Moore: Sweet Songs of the Soul that will be streaming on Crossroads’ website December 1 thru January 3. The production, written and performed by Moore, made its debut during Crossroads 2007-2008 Season.
Crossroads Theatre Company's first Emerging Artists program of the 2020/2021 online season will focus on South Africa's prestigious Market Theatre Laboratory. Offered on Crossroads' on-line platform, the program will stream November 17 - November 29 at www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org.
The conversations, which will be recorded live at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) with a limited audience comprised of Crossroads members and streamed for public viewing, are being co-presented by the NAACP of New Brunswick.
Crossroads Theatre Company members, patrons and supporters will be able to experience a free of charge, live on-line performance event produced by the Kennedy Center in partnership with the New Jersey Theatre Alliance before Crossroadsa?? season opener.
An exclusive viewing party of the first production to kick-off Crossroads Theatre Company's 2020-2021 season is being offered to the theatre's members on Sunday, October 4 at 4pm Eastern time via ZOOM. The Members Only event will feature Crossroads alumnus Anna Deavere Smith's film Twilight: Los Angeles 1992.
Crossroads Theatre Company is proud to be among the national arts and cultural organizations, theatres and museums around the country that are partnering with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) which is hosting a nationwide watch party of the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble.
Crossroads Theatre Company's 2020-2021 season that kicks off October 6 will consist of a schedule of on-line (closed-captioned) and live theatrical productions, town hall conversations and fundraising events from its home stages at The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) as well as from the stages of several of Crossroads producing partners around the U.S. and globally, Crossroads Theatre Company announced today.
Crossroads Theatre Company's contribution to the first New Brunswick HEART Festival is a tap presentation from the play FLY performed by Omar Edwards that will close out the festival.
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced 12 awards granted from their Frank Young Fund for New Musicals. The Frank Young Fund for New Musicals (FYFNM) is a major funding program to support NAMT member not-for-profit theatres in their collaborations with writers to create, develop and produce new musicals.
Long-time theater producer/directors Marshall Jones, III and Ricardo Khan combined forces to create a unique theater experience via the internet, Stream ON! Broadwayworld had the opportunity to interview Jones about the production company.
A live-streamed memorial service for Lee Kenneth Richardson will be held Sunday, June 14 at 4:00 p.m. (EST). Richardson, who passed away May 24 of natural causes, was a man of many artistic and theatrical talents.
Come to Crossroads Theatre Company to 'get on the bus' and experience the perilous history-making journey of the Freedom Riders, black and white college students who traveled through the South by bus to challenge the non-enforcement of federal law that ruled segregation on public buses unconstitutional. The Freedom Riders drew national attention to their cause because of the violence pointed against them as they traveled from state to state. The play Freedom Rider, written by Murray Horwitz, Nathan Louis Jackson, Kathleen McGhee-Anderson, Ricardo Khan, and Nikkole Salter, runs April 9 through April 19 in the Arthur Laurents Theatre of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC).
Crossroads Theatre Company's Genesis Festival of Plays is back for a three-day run of three new works that stand true to the theatre's history of telling stories that highlight issues and start conversations across ethnic, racial and cultural spectrums, Crossroads announced today. The Genesis Festival, which will run February 21-23, is a playwright laboratory experience that consists of three separate shows of stage readings for the audience to enjoy and critique that will be held in the performance studio of The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC).
Forty-one years ago, two Rutgers University Theatre Arts students envisioned, embraced and captured the opportunity to create a space where the black experience would be shared through stories produced on stage for all to enjoy; and that was and is the story of Crossroads Theatre Company, a staple of the arts and cultural community in New Brunswick, NJ and across the region, state and nation.
Crossroads Theatre Company has had a marvelous start to their 2019/2020 Season. After a successful staging of 'Paul Robeson' in September, the Company recently had an event that will be treasured by supporters, friends and patrons for a very long time. 'A Night With Crossroads-Honoring Denzel Washington' was held on October 19.
Paul Robeson a?" a play examining the life of the famous scholar, athlete, entertainer and activist who graduated from Rutgers 100 years ago a?" is be the first production of the upcoming season of the Crossroads Theatre Company as well as Crossroads' first play in the new New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC).
The upcoming season of Crossroads Theatre Company's three plays and Genesis Festival of new works was recently featured at their 2019/2020 announcement at The Heldrich in New Brunswick.
Crossroads Theatre Company and New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) are presenting a co-production of Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies at NJPAC, 1 Center Street in Newark, Thursday, March 21 - Sunday, March 24, 2019. Click here to purchase tickets.
In Back to the Real the audience enters the post 2016 election world of a brother and sister as they navigate the challenges of racial and sexual identity. Current themes confronting the characters include anti-LGBTQ sentiment, colorism in the African-American community, and hiding our true identity.
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