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Every Saturday Night (Staged Reading)

  • African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA, 94102 United States (map)

Every Saturday Night is an original musical that takes audiences back to San Francisco’s Fillmore District in the 1950s, when it was a burgeoning African-American community, replete with scores of jazz clubs. The show takes place in the after-hours club that Ardella runs out of her basement and is seen through the eyes of a young boy, her son, enthralled with the transformation of the people in his community from their daytime personas to their nightlife ones. Inspired by true events, acclaimed Bay Area Playwright, Composer and Director Danny Duncan’s new work offers a boisterous and heartfelt glimpse into the “Harlem of the West” before San Francisco’s Western Addition Redevelopment permanently changed the district.

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