The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/24/suffs-keeps-marching-on-national-tour-arriving-triumphantly-in-sf/It is hard not to hear the many, painful echoes of our own time in the story of Suffs, the Tony-winning Broadway musical based on real events in the women's suffrage movement of the 1910s. Suffs arrives in San Francisco in a week when the energy of resistance against a presidential administration is high, and when we feel like we're in a precarious moment where the rights of immigrants are being trampled on, the histories of Black Americans are being erased or minimized — at least in official circles — and the entire right to exist of queer and transgender people is under threat. And Suffs is a musical about politics, about the long arc of history, and the

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