for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Broadway Opening- April 20th, 2022
The Booth Theatre, New York, NY

Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf is the “landmark of American theater” (The New York Times) that blazed a trail for generations to come. Now, this celebration of the power of Black womanhood returns to Broadway for the first time, reinvented, directed, and choreographed by “a true superstar of theater and dance” (NPR), Tony Award® nominee Camille A. Brown (Once On This Island, Choir Boy, The Metropolitan Opera’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones). And her vision is as fearlessly new as it is fiercely now.

Join the circle as seven powerful women share their stories, find their strength, and rejoice in each other’s humor and passion through a fusion of music, dance, poetry and song that explodes off the stage and resonates with all. It’s time for joy. It’s time for sisterhood. It’s time for colored girls.

Written by: Ntozake Shange
Director and Choreography: Camille A. Brown
Associate Choreographers: Maleek Washington & Mayte Natalio
Assistant Choreographer: Mora-Amina Parker

PRESS

“Triumphant..Brown’s staging is so attuned to the words and cadences of Shange’s choreopoem, yet so confident in its own interpretive vision, that the characters blossom into their full vibrancy…in Brown’s sublime and supple channeling, we hear Shange with exquisite clarity.”
-The New York Times

“ This revival, by director and choreographer Camille A. Brown, is the most essential production of Shange’s masterwork to date.”
- Broadway News

“Every bit as stunning are the cast members and director Brown, who has turned Shange’s work into a dance piece as well as a theater piece. Doing so in her best stage outing in a relatively short local career, she has enhanced the for colored girls value.”
- New York Stage Review

“the phenomenal Tony nominee Camille A. Brown, “a true superstar of theater and dance” (NPR), is helming the project, the first Black women to serve in the dual roles of director and choreographer on a Broadway production in more than 65 years (Katherine Dunham was the most recent and first choreographer). Ms. Brown’s vision is as fearlessly new as it is fiercely now and feistily aligned in movement, sway and inspiration with her late friend Ntozake’s words.”
- Our Time Press

“Director and choreographer Camille A. Brown and her cast of seven female singer-dancer-actors breathe life and vitality into Ntozake Shange’s still-potent mid-1970s touchstone for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf. Opening tonight at the Booth Theatre on Broadway, Shange’s fantasia of poetry, dance and stories of confession, defiance, sisterhood and, above all, perseverance, holds a power that’s not been weakened either by decades or the loss of a once startling newness.”
- Deadline

“this impeccably performed, exquisitely choreographed revival manages the same for many of us out there in the dark. Dance, said Shange, allowed her to understand the planet the way “atomic particles experience space.” If that’s so, then atomic particles must love each other wildly. They must always be so grateful to see each other, whenever gravity — or a revival — draws them back into one another’s arms.”
- Vulture

“Brown and her design team skillfully command the audience to engage solely with the women on stage and their stories.”
- Variety

“Brown’s version of the production injects Shange’s already electrifying work with a distinctive and vivid energy. She has kept much of the original choreopoem (a term coined by Shange to describe this piece’s combination of poetry, narrative, dance and music) intact, but with the help of her dynamic cast, Brown, who both directs and choreographs this revival, remixes for colored girls, manipulating sound and movement to reveal even deeper layers.”
- The Hollywood Reporter

“Brown, who has become the first Black woman to serve as a director-choreographer on Broadway in 65 years, was an ideal choice for helming the revival, infusing it with modern dance and coordinating its visual and lyrical elements into a striking pattern”
- AMNY

“Director-choreographer Camille A. Brown’s production stuns the daylights out of you.”
- New York Stage Review

“Its revival makes history thanks to director/choreographer Camille A. Brown. The Tony Award-nominee is the first Black woman to direct a Broadway show in 65 years and she did not take this task lightly. Brown’s version of for colored girls is minimalistic — a stage, a projected backdrop, and the performers. It allows the focus to be on the movement and the monologues, which is the production’s biggest asset. for colored girls shines due to this simplicity.”
- The Grio

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