Ntozake Shange’s canonical choreopoem returns to Broadway with direction and choreography by Camille A. Brown. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic The play begins with a call to the past. “Aunt ...
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow ...
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 ...
One of the most magical aspects of theater is how it uses artifice to show its audience reality. Wigs, costumes, fictional stories and characters all somehow coalesce to make something real from the ...
Critics around the country have mostly rolled their eyes at the notion that filmmaker Tyler Perry could do justice to Ntozake Shange's iconic 1976 play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide ...
“For Colored Girls” ran for 742 performances and is only the second play by an African American to open on Broadway following Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” Washington particularly ...