JOIN US AT THE 3RD NEW ROOTS THEATRE FESTIVAL

NRTF is a 3-day arts festival that
🌱 unearths artistic voices in the Bay Area
🎭 celebrates the development of new work
📣 and centers BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ voices

The 2023 festival features 2 SFBATCO original projects and 4 projects by Bay Area legacy companies:
Zaccho Dance Theatre, Campo Santo, Magic Theatre, AfroSolo, SF Recovery Theatre

All six of these dynamic projects are in various stages of development, and the Festival offerings range from staged readings to fully memorized workshop productions.

SHIDAIQU - a new musical workshop development
In the 1920s, Shanghai was simultaneously the birthplace of a new and idealistic Communist party, an incubator of American jazz, and a city with one of the largest wealth gaps in history. Shidaiqu is the fictional story of a peasant from the countryside who travels to the big city to play jazz with the greats, and ends up falling in with a group of musicians and activists who introduce him to the communalism inherent in the creation of art. The musical takes place in a fictionalized world that blends elements of historical Shanghai with modern-day San Francisco, a city with a parallel arc in its art, activism, and socioeconomic scene.

Jord Liu / Playwright
Ely Sonny Orquiza / Director
Diana Lee / Music Director