Director Camille A. Brown and members of the cast talked to theGrio about the latest production of Ntozake Shange's famous choreo-poem. Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered ...

The movie is based on Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Unlike the original play which featured only 7 women known by colors ...

As a result, "For Colored Girls" often is difficult to watch ... of Shange's original verse in the script of his wonderfully cast film. What doesn't: Perry simply doesn't know when to end his ...

Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, legendary playwright/poet Ntozake Shange's form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven Black women using poetry, song and movement. With ...

Perry confronts a daunting challenge with “For Colored Girls,” an update of the 1977 Tony Award-nominated theatrical drama “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is ...

Newton wasn't familiar with Ntozake Shange's original play, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf," nor had her role of Tangie — the saucy, sexually independent ...

Mariah Carey has pulled out of Tyler Perry’s film adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf,” stirring rumors that the pop star ...

The cast of “For Colored Girls” covers the December issue of Essence magazine. The ladies, including Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine and Whoopi Goldberg, appear on one, while the men including ...

For colored girls... "is a compilation of 20 poems ... It is performed by a cast of seven women characters, each of whom is only known by a color, such as Lady in Red. The women in the play ...

Kerry Washington is one determined woman. After finding out that Tyler Perry was working on an adaptation of "For Colored Girls," the actress cornered him during an event. "I said, 'I heard you're ...

The cast continued to rehearse and eventually ... I just scooted everybody out and would sneak the colored girls into the Public Theater and we would rehearse there. Somebody told me that Joe ...

The “colored girls” in the Iowa production will be a mix of students of varying heritages – East Asian and Latina as well as African American – while the VCU cast is all Black actors.