INFORMATION FOR
“Crumbs from the Table of Joy,” a play by Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage, will be staged in the Hunziker Black Box Theatre at William Paterson University in Wayne. The production, part of the University Theatre Series, will run in two sections. The first run is March 1 to 6; a second run will be held March 29 to 31 in conjunction with the University’s second annual Cross-Cultural Arts Festival, “Africa and the African Diaspora.”
The production chronicles the struggles of Godfrey, a widowed African-American father, bringing up his two daughters in Brooklyn in the late 1950s. He turns to the religion of Father Divine for answers, while his sister-in-law from Harlem, Lily, introduces the teens to the sexual freedom and racial turmoil of the city. The household heats up when Godfrey marries a white woman from Germany.
The cast features William Paterson students Celestine Dupree of Bogota, Bryan Morales of Ocean, Aiyahna Sanders of Belleville, Brooke Schuldt of Hawthorne, and Amanda Starks of Rahway. The production is directed by Sherrie Ahlin, an adjunct professor of communication at William Paterson University.
William Paterson University’s Cross-Cultural Arts Festival was created by the College of the Arts and Communication to highlight William Paterson’s mission to encourage diversity, community outreach, and multiculturalism.
Show times for “Crumbs from the Table of Joy” are 8 p.m. on March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 29, 30, 31; March 4 at 11 a.m.; and March 6 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $12, $9 for William Paterson community and senior citizens. For directions or to purchase tickets, please call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
