PlayMakers Repertory Company’s No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone Testifies to Art’s Power to Drive Social and Political Change

by Pamela Vesper and Kurt Benrud
Triangle Arts & Entertainment

Theater Review: PlayMakers’ Production of ‘No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone’ is a Wake-Up Call to Arms

by Lauren Van Hemert
RDU On Stage

Yolanda Rabun Is a Commanding Nina Simone in Howard L. Craft’s Play

by Byron Woods
IndyWeek

The Remarkable Story of the Drive to Preserve Nina Simone’s Childhood Home

Sarah Edwards, Indy Week

One morning in June 2018, Yolanda Rabun parked her car at 30 East Livingston Street in Tryon, North Carolina, where a modest clapboard house sits on a grassy slope. She didn’t know why she’d been asked to come sing on the porch of jazz great Nina Simone’s childhood home, but Rabun—a musician who also works as a corporate attorney at IBM—wasn’t about to pass up the chance.  Read More

The ‘High Priestess Of Soul’ Nina Simone Comes To Life In One-Woman Show

Dana Terry and Frank Stasio, WUNC State of Things Public Radio

The musical legacy of Nina Simone is celebrated throughout the world, but to North Carolina, she is a special treasure. Read More and Listen

Yolanda Rabun Starring In “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone” At Playmakers

Phyllis Coley, Spectacular Magazine

Yolanda Rabun stands at an even five feet tall, but you wouldn’t know it by the size of her voice—rich and resonant in its low alto, with a full & bold high belt, a voice as complex and compelling as the story that shapes it. Read More