For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

WRITTEN by Ntozake Shange

SEPTEMBER 5-21

This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women.

Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.

After early performances in California and on the East Coast, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf opened at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in March 1976 and quickly moved moved off-Broadway to Joseph Papp's Public Theater. A few months later, the show made its Broadway debut, opening at the Booth Theatre on September 15, 1976.

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