For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (127)
See it if If you want to hear great writing in Open Mic form with heart wrenching and heart warming stories.
Don't see it if If you can't stand some real truths that are out here in THIS 🌎. BUT U SHOULD EXPERIENCE IT!!
See it if if you love the play, love Shange, and want to see a new version of it with new music and some extra poems by Shange and sign language
Don't see it if you're looking for a traditional, linear play. if you are easily offended by jokes about white people... you're there to listen Read more
See it if you love cutting edge theatre.Best version of this seminal show I've ever seen.Powerful w/o being preachy.Moving w/o being trite.Brilliant
Don't see it if you want light & fluffy.This is brilliantly written,directed & performed.You will not forget the message or the show.This one stays with you
See it if You are a theatre lover and want to see an exquisite ensemble perform a moving and mesmerizing show
Don't see it if You just want to see a fun show
See it if you think the issues of women of color are important, if you want to see a perfect production with 7 amazing actresses, and a great director
Don't see it if if you believe the other reviews. "Can't hear it ?" "Slow moving ?" Are you crazy or just mean-spirited ? Those low ratings are absurd ! Read more
See it if True engagement of beauty, love & pain of black women exquisitely staged with great acting & powerful words. An authentic American classic!
Don't see it if If spoken words from the prospective of American African women experiences is not your interest, then skip it.
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See it if You want to feel, you want to be touched and to walk out feeling lifted. I don't have the words to fully describe this experience.
Don't see it if If you don't like to see shows that require the viewer to experience emotions or have their spirits touched.
Critic Reviews (14)
CRITIC’S PICK "Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure: The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast."
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4/5 Stars "The incantation begins with Ntozake Shange's singular text, first performed at the Public in 1976 and described as a 'choreopoem' by its creator. Shange's ingenious fusion of language, music and movement conjures one soul-stirring revelation after the next."
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"43 Years on, 'for colored girls…' Comes Alive at the Public Again"
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"Choreopoetry in Motion Ntozake Shange’s work about seven young women of color who reflect on their lives and problematic prospects gets a revival at the Public."
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"Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls...' Is Still a Tragic, Joyous, Metaphysical Dilemma: The 40-year-old poetic play returns to its early home at the Public Theater under the direction of Leah C. Gardiner."
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"Ntozake Shange's Groundbreaking 'FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF' Returns To The Public"
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"The writing is defiant, angry, introspective, amused, sensual -- a passionate cascade of images and ideas from black women who, in 1976, were not typically invited downstage center, and who, in 2019, are still underrepresented."
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5/5 Stars "When 'For Colored Girls' opened at the Public Theater in June 1976, it was shocking, disturbing, disheartening, reassuring, life-giving, and an indisputable theatrical event. After 43 years it remains everything it was then, perhaps even more so."
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