2010 has proven to be a true test for myself and the Black Theater community as a whole, especially in the Bay. The losses of Quentin Easter & Stanley Williams of the Lorraine Hansberry Theater created a hole to be felt nationwide, not failing to mention Vonetta McGee.

With the spirit these icons represent it would only be right to honor them at the 2010 San Francisco Theater Festival. The screening room, where SF Recovery Theatre and friends will perform, will be known as The Quentin Easter & Stanley Williams Black Theater venue for that day.

SF Recovery Theatre is honored to present this year, the OBIE award winning Black Arts Movement classic, “The Dutchman” penned by the god-father himself Amiri Baraka. Of course we will put our special spin on it to reflect the changing and not changing points that made this piece what it is today.

We will also be continuing our work in progress, “Night at the Black Hawk” an original piece reflecting on the lives and stories of the artists, musicians and residents that lived in the shadow of the Black Hawk Jazz Club.

Having left 2009 behind, our accomplishments of starting the first Black Theater Festival in the Tenderloin, a mention in Esquire Magazine, a performance installation at the first of its kind, Wonderland art exhibition in the Tenderloin, curated by the internationally known artist, Lance Fung, then flying to Los Angeles and performing two stunning shows in ONE day at the Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica, was only the blueprint for the future.

As the many spirits that go before us have taught us….the show must go on!

Geoffrey Grier
Crisis Intervention Director
SF Recovery Theatre

The San Francisco Recovery Theatre is out to make a difference.