for colored girls: the 40-year-old masterwork that’s still captivating audiences | Broadway

Camille A Brown: ‘It’s a Black woman’s voice, and Black women are seeing reflections of themselves.’

In the first five minutes of the late artist Ntozake Shange’s masterwork, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, a character makes plea of witness and recognition: “somebody/ anybody sing […]