What are the songs in for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf and what's the order? dark phrases graduation nite now i love somebody more than no assistance i'm a poet ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On September 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” opened at 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 ...

Ntozake Shange (right) in a scene from her play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, a seven woman ensemble that was nominated for a Tony Award in 1977. Ntozake ...

To say For Colored Girls is Tyler Perry’s best film to date is like boasting that this summer’s Eclipse was the best Twilight entry yet: That was still a labored supernatural soap opera and this is ...

Camille A. Brown has been dancing since she was four years old. She heads a dance company and is one of the most sought after choreographers of our generation. Still, when she was tapped to both ...

A Twitter campaign is trying to save “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” after it was announced this week that the critically acclaimed Broadway show would be ...

The current exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is titled, i found god in myself: The 40th Anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls.

This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women. “A poignant, gripping, angry and beautiful work.” – Time ...

On September 15, 1976, Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” opened at the Booth Theatre, forever reshaping the form and feel of American theatre.