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| Katya Collazo, Candace Thomas, Deidra Grace, and Kia Dawn Fulton Photo by Tim Fuller |
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"The death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 was a wakeup call that prompted many people to new-found forms of activism. This was similar to how the deaths of four young girls in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi several months earlier, inspired singer Nina Simone to write several songs, including "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Four Women," and shift her focus from being an artist to an artist-activist. Playwright Christina Ham has imagined the creation of one of those songs in her play Nina Simone: Four Women, which finds Simone in the burned-out shell of the 16th Street Baptist Church shortly after the bombing. While the impressive play has a few shortcomings, Arizona Theatre Company presents the area premiere of this 2016 drama in a superb production with a fantastic cast and incredibly rich creative elements...." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
Click here for more information on this production that runs through April 10
"The death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 was a wakeup call that prompted many people to new-found forms of activism. This was similar to how the deaths of four young girls in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi several months earlier, inspired singer Nina Simone to write several songs, including "Mississippi Goddamn" and "Four Women," and shift her focus from being an artist to an artist-activist. Playwright Christina Ham has imagined the creation of one of those songs in her play Nina Simone: Four Women, which finds Simone in the burned-out shell of the 16th Street Baptist Church shortly after the bombing. While the impressive play has a few shortcomings, Arizona Theatre Company presents the area premiere of this 2016 drama in a superb production with a fantastic cast and incredibly rich creative elements...." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
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