Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems, collectively called a "choreopoem". "Shange's poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles African-American women face throughout their ...

My friend Michelle and I were the only white people in the audience at last week’s performance of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, which made me all the more ...

World Stage Theatre Company will continue their Timeless and Relevant stories season with For Colored Girls Who Have ...

Love prevails through tragedy in the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts production of “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.” The historic poetic musical ...

The seminal play for colored girls…who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will return to Broadway in spring 2022. This will be the very first time that the iconic play will be revived on ...

Loyola University’s Department of Theatre Arts & Dance is excited to present Ntozake Shange’s powerful choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, from ...

“Not to say anything against Mr. Perry, but judging from what we have seen from him we don’t know that we can do this justice,” said Unity Theatre Ensemble founder and Artistic Director Ralph Greene.

NEW YORK (AP) — Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is ...

Ntozake Shange, a spoken-word artist who morphed into a playwright with her canonical play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,” died on Saturday in Bowie, Maryland ...

As a black kid growing up in the 1990s, I was in love with film. I would leave a theater and remember lines: Laurence Fishburne in 1991’s Boyz N the Hood telling his son, “You my son; you’re my ...

Editor’s Note: Director Sarah Oguntomilade is a former Michigan in Color Columnist, but she was not involved in the creation, production or publication of this piece. In 1976, Ntozake Shange’s ...