(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- Crossroads Theatre Company (CTC) has announces its 47th season, which celebrates two new productions of iconic stories from the diaspora, along with a lineup of new plays from the multigenerational cohort of contemporary storytellers. The season includes productions of Crumbs From The Table of Joy and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, along with the Genesis Festival of New Voices & New Plays.
October 23 – November 23, 2025 | Crumbs From The Table Of Joy 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.
April 2026 | 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.
Performances begin May 19, 2026 | Sizwe Bansi Is Dead by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, directed by Ricardo Khan. One man’s death becomes another’s salvation in this indictment of South Africa’s Apartheid system which lasted through the 1990s. Written by South African playwright Athol Fugard in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona. Both actors/playwrights, John Kani and Winston 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.
Founded in 1978, by Ricardo Khan and L. Kenneth Richardson, Crossroads has been a sanctuary for some of the world's most celebrated and decorated artists including August Wilson, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe and many more. To date the company has launched 100+ productions, 50 World Premieres and introduced nearly 40 new playwrights to the global theatre canon. With existing partnerships with other theatre companies around the world, The Company remains a global leading producer and the only culturally specific company to receive the Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre.
