Nina Simone: Four Women at Herberger Theater Center

A face-to-face musical evening with the fierygenius, activist, and musician that is Nina Simone. Following the 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Nina Simone shifted her career from artist to activist. Infused with traditional hymns along with her own songs and covers, Nina Simone: FourWomen imagines a conversation between Simone and three Blackwomen from variousbackgrounds and experiences and their fight to overcome second-class status, racism, and the stereotypes that seek to define them.