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Sunset Baby
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A searing and heartfelt story of family, legacy, and the weight of history, Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby follows Nina—a sharp, guarded woman carving out her path in present-day Brooklyn. When her estranged father, a former Black Panther, suddenly reappears seeking redemption, their collision sparks a reckoning over grief, betrayal, and the generational scars of revolution.
Directed by Artistic Director Margo Hall, Sunset Baby confronts the tension between dreams and survival, the fight to define identity on one’s own terms, and the quiet, radical power of forgiveness.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
In playwright Dominique Morisseau’s 2013 father/daughter drama “Sunset Baby,” now in a Lorraine Hansberry Theatre production helmed by artistic director Margo Hall, drug-dealer Nina and her estranged former Black Panther father, Kenyatta, must come to terms with their fraught familial past. The “generational scars of revolution,” says the theater, are part of the incendiary mix. The play has been described as a “tonal love poem” to Nina Simone.
Jean Schiffman
Contributing Writer, Theater
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
Named for the trailblazing playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) was founded in 1981 by Stanley E. Williams and Quentin Easter. One of the West Coast's oldest and most renowned African American Theatres, LHT is devoted to presenting a diverse selection of professional productions of works by leading and emerging Black and multicultural playwrights.
Named for the trailblazing playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) was founded in 1981 by Stanley E. Williams and Quentin Easter. One of the West Coast's oldest and most renowned African American Theatres, LHT is devoted to presenting a diverse selection of professional productions of works by leading and emerging Black and multicultural playwrights.