A Night WIth Janis Joplin
In "A Night with Janis Joplin" you see dead people quite a lot. The conceit of the script is Joplin, on stage singing her heart out, with pauses to tell you about the amazing women who shaped her music: Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Odetta, Etta James and Aretha. Â These apparitions appear before us all over the remarkably fluid set from Justin Townsend. Â Taprena Michelle Augustine gives us Bessie Smith, De'Adre A…