SFBATCO Works-in-Development

At SFBATCO, we champion new and exciting works and really believe in the process of development, trial and error, workshops, staged readings, and collaboration. Scroll down to get a taste of what we are in the process of developing. Support the development of new work by donating today.

Every Saturday Night

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.