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 ...

An echo of gasps rippled through the traditional black theatre community when it was learned that the poster child of urban drama would present the big-screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s stage ...

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 ...