for colored girls is back!
Paul Williams and Donald Sutton, representing the Ntozake Shange Trust, have announced that the late author’s groundbreaking Broadway play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is now available nationwide for licensing for amateur and professional productions.
for colored girls became a theater classic based on its first Broadway production in 1976 when it became the longest running play in the history of Broadway written by a Black author. Ever since, it has routinely been produced annually on college campuses throughout the nation as well as in community and regional theaters.
The most recent Broadway production of for colored girls in 2022, directed by award-winning choreographer and director Camille A. Brown, garnered seven (7) Tony nominations, including Best Revival of a Play. However, other productions of the play could not be authorized until recently. Now, the play is fully available for licensing in the United States through Concord Theatricals.
Many household names in theater and film honed their skills as one of the ladies in for colored girls. The list includes Angela Bassett, Alfre Wooward, Lynn Whitfield, S. Epatha Merkerson and Regina Taylor. The work was also adapted by Tyler Perry into a major motion picture in 2010 featuring Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rasha, Thandiwe Newton and Loretta Divine among other notable cast members.
Parties interested in licensing for colored girls for stage productions should contact Concord Theatricals as indicated below:
Concord Theatricals
Professional Licensing Inquiries: professional@concordtheatricals.com
Nonprofessional Licensing Inquiries: nonprofessional@concordtheatricals.com
www.concordtheatricals.com
Go to officialntozakeshange.com to learn more about the life and legacy of Ntozake Shange.
The Shange Trust Announces the Audiobook for Sing A Black Girl’s Song Is Now Available
The audiobook for Sing A Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works of Ntozake Shange, published by Legacy Lit, Hachette Book Group and released in September 2023, features a stellar list of narrators. Voices on the audiobook include celebrated talents such as Alfre Woodard, D. Woods, Regina Taylor, Lynn Whitfield, Okwui Okpokwasili, Imani Perry, Robin Miles and Tarana Burke. Shange’s sister, award-winning playwright and author, Ifa Bayeza, as well as Shange’s daughter, Savannah Shange, award-winning author and professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, have also lent their voices to this remarkable collection of never-before-published works by Shange. The audiobook of Sing A Black Girl’s Song is available wherever audiobooks are sold.
Sing a Black Girl’s Song is a new posthumous collection of Shange’s unpublished poems, essays and plays from throughout the life of the seminal Black feminist writer. Here we meet the young Shange, learn the moments that inspired for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf…, travel with an eclectic family of musicians, sit on “The Couch” opposite Shange’s therapist and discover plays written after for colored girls’ international success. Every fan of Ntozake Shange and her life’s work will want to own their copy of this remarkable volume and its exceptional audiobook.