New play highlights Club Riviera — one of the biggest Black nightclubs in the 40s
St. Louis on the Air · St. Louis Public Radio
June 15, 202223m 50s
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Show Notes
Club Riviera rivaled the Cotton Club in Harlem and attracted the biggest jazz acts of the day, including Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington. A new play “Live at the Riviera” aims to retell its origin story before it’s lost in history. Director Thomasina Clarke and Playwright Freeman Cole share how they collected oral histories to piece together events.