for colored girls who have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf

for colored girls who have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf is Ntozake Shange’s first work and most acclaimed theater piece, which premiered in 1976. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form Shange coined as the choreopoem. for colored girls… tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society. – Wikepedia

The show was first produced by Woodie King for the New Federal Theatre, then by Joseph Papp at the Public. The Broadway production was presented by Joseph Papp and Woodie King, Jr. at the Booth Theatre, a New York Shakespeare Festival Production in association with New Federal Theatre. Cast & crew listings are for the Broadway production.