Red Velvet

The San Francisco Playhouse
450 Post Street San Francisco

It's London, 1833. No black man has ever starred on a British stage, not even as Othello, until tonight. It's not hard to imagine the audience's shock when Ira Aldridge, a young black American, takes the stage unexpectedly. In the stirring, endlessly fascinating play Red Velvet, Aldridge breaks more than the color barrier as he battles the entrenched social and theatrical norms of his day. After his performance, he goes on to become a living legend, lauded from the footlights of Stratford to the halls of Saint Petersburg. See the highly praised, fiercely funny drama at the San Francisco Playhouse.