Heart-wrenching, empowering and true-to-today, the play is a testament to the undeniable political power of artistry. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX ThingsToDoInSanAntonio
After the white supremacist bombing at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham took the lives of four young Black girls on Sept. 15, 1963, legendary jazz singer Nina Simone grappled with her grief by writing a series of protest songs.
Her songs"Mississippi Goddam,""Ain't Got No, I Got Life,""To Be Young, Gifted and Black" and"Four Women" became ironclad battle cries for the civil rights movement., which makes its regional debut at the Public Theater this month, recounts the brutal aftermath of the Birmingham terrorist attack, accompanied by Simone's soul-stirring musical response to the events that unfolded around her.
$15-$45, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20-Feb. 12, The Public Theater of San Antonio, 800 W. Ashby Place, 733-7258,
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