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 ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 Enuf, ...

Ntozake Shange’s thought-provoking 1976 Tony Award-nominated drama “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” will bring dynamic monologues of Black womanhood to the ...