James Wilson takes a look at Sunset Baby at Signature Theatre:
Singer and songwriter Nina Simone was a clarion voice of the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In songs like "Mississippi Goddam" and "Old Jim Crow," Simone's words and music provided a soundtrack for the revolution, but professionally and personally she paid a high price for her forthrightness. Although Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby, currently playing at New York's Signature Theatre, is not about Simone, her spirit haunts the play at every turn. |
