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Samm-Art Williams' play "Home" will be staged in Wilmington for the first time in decades.

The play follows a North Carolina farmer who moves North after losing his farm and serving jail time.

Williams, a Pender County native, was one of only two Wilmington-area writers to have a play produced on Broadway.

The club of writers from the Wilmington area who've had their work produced on a Broadway stage is exceedingly small.

In fact, the club only has two members. One is Willis Richardson, born in Wilmington in 1889, whose 1923 drama "The Chip Woman's Fortune" became the first play by a Black author to be produced on Broadway.

The other is another Black writer, Samm-Art Williams, born in 1946 in the Pender County town of Burgaw, whose play "Home" ran on Broadway from

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