CROSSWAYS THEATRE 2022

 EVENTS 2023 

Crossways Theatre expands in 2021, wins first grant from PUFFIN FOUNDATION, airs across state lines in radio productions, NY Times article features goals of company.

 2023: Crossways sponsored A CHANGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD at Ballet Hispanico, written by Roberto Schneiger, dealing with the gentrification impact and aftermath in a NYC neighborhood.

On March 26, Sunday, Crossways has its Sixth Annual Women's Festival at the community room of Strycker's Bay, featuring the works of the following playwrights: Katharine Dreves (DOGMOM), Carol Kahn (BESPOKE BABIES), Kathleen Potts (WINNING WOMEN: BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS) Bina Sharf (LIFE IS A ONE ACT PLAY), Jillie Simon (STAND UP), and Lionelle Hamanaka (REFUGE (E)).

In the Fall, the theme of Crossways' Fall Festival will be: SECRETS

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2022: The Fifth Annual Women's Festival was in late March at Bernie Wohl Theater, with plays by five women playwrights, including Kathleen Potts.

On April 30, Elizabeth Jennings, a play about a 19th century black abolitionist was staged at  Poets & Writers in Greenwich Village, receiving local coverage online with a packed house. On May 2]\1, Covid Crime Part II, depicting Noh theater techniques of masks, suspension of distance, with poetic dialogue, was seen in Flushing and covered in the Chinese Press and on WBAI's announcements, by Asian Americans for Equality, with grants from Humanities New York, the Asian American Bar Association's Women's Committee, and Indie Theater's AAPI travel grants. Actors taking part were: Beth Griffith, JR Carter, Dominique Xi, Timmy Ong, Directed by Konrad Aderer, with Miguel Subjetdo, and moderated by Chris Kwok, Esq.

The Fall Festival took place November 4, 2022 from 6-9 at Dramatists Guild's Foundation new Music Room with a packed audience, featuring Clarion Call by Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Act I of The Mountain and the Valley by Lionelle Hamanaka, The Judgement by Howard Pflanzer, and a poet's circle headed by Lyonel Laverde Hansen. Featured artists including Jalissa Fulton, Ronald Haynie, Katherine Alt Keener, Arthur Lundquist Alyson Linefsky, Beth Griffith, on the theme of FACING THE FUTURE. 

In 2023 a new play by Roberto Schneiger will be presented at Ballet Hispanico about gentrification that is forcing working class people out of their neighborhoods, "A Change in the Neighborhood." 

On October 24, 2021 Crossways presented Covid Crime, a Stop Anti Asian Hate play, at Richard Tucker Park on 66th Street and Broadway. Featuring John Bernos, Dominique Xi, Dylan Omori McCombs, Beth Griffith, JR Carter, and Howard Pflanzer, directed by Howard Pflanzer, playwright Lionelle Hamanaka, from Noon -4 p.m. Audience heard speeches by Shirley Ng, of Asian American Legal Defense Fund and Jackie Wang of Welcome to Chinatown. 

November 14, 2021 Crossways Presented its Annual Fall Festival  at the Bernie Wohl Theater at Goddard Riverside Community Center, 92st & Columbus Avenue, Sponsored by the Puffin Foundation, with the theme "Imagining the Future." Playwrights Nathaniel Blake Johnson, Lyonel Laverde Hansen, Kathleen Potts, Lionelle Hamanaka, Ann Mary Mullane, Howard Pflanzer, presented their vision of what the Future holds. 

December 18, Covid Crime was co-produced by Rob Gee of 21 Pell Street and Vic Huey of COMA, grassroots organizations in Chinatown, with the cast John Bernos, Dominique Xi, Konrad Aderer, Beth Griffith, JR Carter. Comments from audience will engender revisions to Covid Crime, that was aired on WBAI in Nov., KPFT in Houston, and will be in Berkeley on Jan. 20 presented by APEX.