Crossroads Theatre Reveals New Play Lineup for GENESIS FESTIVAL
Performances begin on April 2, 2025.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Mar. 25, 2025
The Tony Award Winning Crossroads Theatre Company will celebrate 35 years of black stories with a lineup of new plays from a multigenerational cohort of new and established writers. Since 1990, The Genesis Festival of New Plays has been a sanctuary for some of the world's most celebrated and decorated playwrights including George C. Wolfe, Ntozake Shange, Anna Deaveare Smith, Richard Wesley, Ruby Dee and Samm Art-Williams. This year's line up includes the following:
PEARLS
Written by Silma Sierra Berrada
Winner of The Crossroads Genesis Prize for Playwriting Excellence
Directed by Axel Avin Jr.
Caught in a cycle of eviction, Pearl does whatever it takes to put a roof over her children's heads. But Swan, the landlord, needs to collect rent to provide for her own family.
April 2, 2025 @7pm
in shame OR in pride: a biomythography
Written by Jamie Goodwin
Directed by Ezra Ezzard
We are confronted once again with the very question of our survival. Jamie has decided to tell you a story. No, a love letter. The story of their grandmothers. Grandmothers who survived.
April 3, 2025 @7pm
The Carelessness of Love
Written by Michael Dinwiddie
Directed by Adrienne Williams
Angelina Grimké has laid plans to leave her overbearing father and escape to a new life with her lover Mary Burrill. Anna Julia, a close family friend, complicates the story by introducing a young man who she hopes will alter Angelina's desires.
As love unravels the threads of the most carefully plotted deceptions, no one can live happily ever after once the truth is laid bare.
April 4, 2025 @7pm
hop tha A
Written by James Anthony Tyler
Directed by Shaun
New York, 2013. During his late-night commute on the A train, Harlem native Tyrone tries to impress Niesha, his coworker at a nightclub, who just wants to read her book and pass the ride in silence. But as they travel uptown, the two forge an unlikely connection that extends beyond the confines of the subway car.
April 7, 2025 @7pm
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