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for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf coign back to Broadway

TICKETS ON SALE TODAY, DECEMBER 9, AT 10:00AM ET

FOR BROADWAY’S

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

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PERFORMANCES BEGIN FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2022

OPENS ON THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022 

AT BROADWAY’S BOOTH THEATRE

 

WRITTEN BY

NTOZAKE SHANGE

DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY

CAMILLE A. BROWN


“A MASTERPIECE! A TURNING-POINT FOR ART BY AND ABOUT BLACK WOMEN.” – Essence

 

Tickets for the fully reimagined production of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown (Once On This Island, Choir Boy, co-director and choreographer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones) are now on sale for the general public on www.telecharge.com as of today at 10:00AM EST.

 

Performances begin at Broadway’s Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street), home to the original 1976 production, on Friday, March 4, 2022, with the opening night set for ThursdayMarch 24th, 2022. Casting will be announced at a later date.  

 

The show marks Camille A. Brown’s directorial debut on Broadway. Brown, who served as choreographer on the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk award-winning 2019 production of the play at The Public Theater, will also continue in her role as choreographer on Broadway, making her the first Black woman to serve as both director and choreographer on a Broadway production in more than 65 years.  

 

Black girl magic is reborn. 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 AwardÒ nominee Camille A. Brown. And her vision is as fearlessly new as it is fiercely now.

Join the circle as seven women share their stories and find strength in each other’s humor and passion through a fusion of poetry, dance, music, 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.

 

For more information, visit www.forcoloredgirlsbway.com

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BIOGRAPHIES

CAMILLE A. BROWN (director & choreographer) is a prolific Black female director/choreographer, who has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Award, Bessie Award, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Doris Duke Artist Award, United States Artists Award, two Audelco Awards, five Princess Grace Awards, and a New York City Center Award. She has received a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, three Lortel nominations, and an Obie award for her work in theater. She is an Emerson Collective fellow, a TED fellow, and the recipient of a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship. Brown is the 2021 Distinguished Artist, presented by The International Society for the Performing Arts. 

Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Choir BoyOnce On This Island, Toni Stone, A Streetcar Named Desire, Much Ado About Nothing, for colored girls... Film/Television: Academy Award-winning Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Emmy Award-winning “Jesus Christ Superstar Live.” Ms. Brown choreographed the critically acclaimed Porgy and Bess for The Metropolitan Opera and this September became the first Black woman director for the main stage at the MET with Fire Shut Up In My Bones. Brown is the founder and Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. 

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