A lyrical look at the interconnected lives of nine black women, including a wife dealing with an alcoholic husband, a sexually liberated single gal, and a magazine executive.

Structurally, For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems ... It is performed by a cast of seven women characters, each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in more ...

Filled with passion, humor, and raw honesty, legendary playwright/poet Ntozake Shange's form-changing choreopoem tells the stories of seven women of color using poetry, song and movement.

Love prevails through tragedy in the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts production of “for colored girls who have ...