Last month, the financially struggling Crossroads Theatre announced an alliance with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The world premiere of the musical is slated for July 2004 in Grahamstown, South Africa.

The final production of the season will be Duma Ndlovu and Steve Fisher's Mandela! The musical, which is currently a work-in-progress, will be presented in a concert format directed by Khan. McKissack's novel about a young African-American girl who moves from Tennessee to Chicago in 1919.įebruary will see the debut of Ossie Davis and Paul Keens-Douglas' Walking with Ijapa, which features various tales and fables from the West Indies, West Africa and North America. Khan will direct the production, which is based on Patricia C. Jerome Hairston's Color Me Dark kicks off the season in November. The 25th Anniversary Season at the theatre, which specializes in works by and about African-Americans, will feature a revival (the one-woman musical The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz that will play in December starring Sandra Reaves-Phillips) and three new works. That's one thing I want to do at Crossroads now that I'm back.' Khan told the New Jersey paper, 'These three years that I've been in Trinidad and Africa has allowed me to see how other cultures interact with our own. The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports that Khan, who left his reign as artistic director three years ago, is currently working on the theatre's upcoming four-play season.

Color me dark by patricia c mckissack