Promise Marks writes, directs, and stars in this one-woman musical built around the life and music of Etta James. It's a theatrical piece rather than a straight concert — live vocals woven together with cinematic video projections so the stage shifts and breathes like a film rather than a static set. The story moves through love, heartbreak, the grind of the blues, and the kind of resilience that defines James's legacy, tracing a woman who kept singing no matter how hard life pushed back.

Marks carries the whole show on her voice, working through some of James's most recognized songs — "Tell Mama," "I'd Rather Go Blind," the title track "A Sunday Kind of Love," and closing with "At Last." It's an intimate format, one performer holding a showlounge stage for the length of an entire narrative, which asks a lot vocally and dramatically but fits the material — Etta James's catalog was never really built for background listening anyway. Fans of blues and soul, or anyone curious about biographical musical theater on a smaller scale than the big resort productions, would find this one worth sitting with.