Nina Simone: Four Women by Christina Ham uses the framework of one of Nina Simone’s most powerful songs, “Four Women,” to give a voice to four archetypes of Black womanhood; Aunt Sarah, Sephronia, Sweet Thing, and Peaches. In the play, the characters take a personal and provocative musical journey that leads them down a path of discovery and healing with songs such as “His Eye is on the Sparrow,” “Old Jim Crow,” “Mississippi Goddam,” “Go Limp,” and “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.”

The cast of Nina Simone: Four Women includes Gabrielle Beckford (Sweet Thing), Darlene Hope (Sarah), our favorite triple threat ‘Divabetic’ Soara-Joye Ross (Sephronia), and Crystal Sha’nae (Nina Simone).

Recently Soara-Joye Ross starred in Arena Stage’s acclaimed production of Anything Goes and was seen in Broadway’s Les Miserables and Dance of the Vampires, as well as on national tour in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and Smokey Joe’s Café.

“Music can’t just be about the art, but it has to be an expression of the good, bad, and ugly in life.”