For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
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When Push Comes to Shove...a network-TV wholesomeness: Even her lesbianism has the equivalent of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval a poster on her wall of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The most offbeat touch is a social... In this article: Sapphire, Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Down syndrome, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, and Mariah Carey |
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PopMatters | October 29, 2009
Can Tyler Perry's 'For Colored Girls' Resurrect BAM? (Column)
...Roland Laird When it was announced that Tyler Perry would direct the screen version of Ntozake Shange's seminal black womanist work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, there was a collective moan of pain...
In this article: Tyler Perry, Spike Lee, Terms of Endearment, and Hollywood
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Bossip | October 25, 2009
Tyler Responds to Spike Lee Calling Madea a Coon…
...material, I personally was very disheartened to learn that Perry will direct the film adaptation of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. " The play covers grave issues...
In this article: Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, God, Hollywood, Candy cane, Medea, and Netflix
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution | October 07, 2009
Stars to shine for Lowery's 88th birthday celebration
...and endings are," Green said. Helping him get it together is Jasmine Guy, who recently directed a sold-out run of the choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," for the True Colors Theatre Company.
In this article: Joseph E. Lowery, Jasmine Guy, Spelman College, Morehouse College, George Wallace, Samuel L. Jackson, and Barack Obama
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washingtonpost.com | September 23, 2009
Tyler Perry, Sam Gilliam Feted on First Night of Congressional Black Caucus Gala
...projects with more depth." Just recently, Perry announced plans to direct and produce a movie based on Ntozake Shange's celebrated play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." If Perry represents an...
In this article: Tyler Perry, Sam Gilliam, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Washington, God, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Louisville, and University of Maryland
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NPR | September 15, 2009
The Different Worlds Of Jasmine Guy
...former Black Panther and mother of rapper Tupac Shakur. And she's just completed directing and choreographing the revival of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" in Atlanta. Jasmine Guy gives a lot of time...
In this article: Jasmine Guy, Neal Conan, Whitley Gilbert, A Different World, Spike Lee, Dead Like Me, Cosby, and The Nation
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The Bergen Record | September 14, 2009
Perry flick's No. 1
...a rare adaptation of someone else's work, he's preparing to go into production on a film version of the Ntozake Shange stage play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." Coming in second was the dark,...
In this article: Tyler Perry, Hugh Hefner, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Saturday Night Live, Oscar, Emmy Award, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, and Playboy magazine
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The Salt Lake Tribune | September 04, 2009
Utah pioneer of black theater, 65, dies
...ranging from stages to bars and restaurants, including Charles Fuller's "A Soldier's Play," August Wilson's "Jitney" and Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." "What's happened here is...
In this article: Utah, California, University of Utah, Cancer, A Soldier's Play, and Jitney
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Gawker | September 04, 2009
Hollywood's Summer Ends with a Bang and a Whimper [Trade Round-up]
...surprise unscheduled appearance. (Variety, Hitfix) • Lionsgate has booked Tyler Perry will direct a screen adaptation of the 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. (The Wrap) • Summer's final...
In this article: Hollywood, Oscar, Telluride Film Festival, Rupert Murdoch, Tyler Perry, and George Clooney
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New Kerala | September 04, 2009
Tyler Perry to direct Shange's for colored girls
...mogul TYLER PERRY is to write, direct and produce the film adaptation of NTOZAKE SHANGE's controversial 1975 play FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF. It will be the first project...
In this article: Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg, Suicide, Ntozake Shange, and Atlanta, Georgia
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PR Newswire: All Releases | September 03, 2009
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Team Up for Big Screen Version of Landmark Play FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF
...that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to filmmaker Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's award-winning 1975 play FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF. Perry will write, direct and produce.
In this article: Tyler Perry, Ntozake Shange, Revenue, NYSE, LGF, and Joint venture
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is a 1975 stageplay by Ntozake Shange. First performed at the Bacchanal, a woman's bar outside of Berkeley, California, it was first produced in New York City at Studio Riobea in 1975; produced Off-Broadway at the Anspacher Public Theatre in 1976; and produced on Broadway at the Booth Theatre that same year. A heavily edited version of the play was made into a TV movie in 1982 featuring Shange, actresses Laurie Carlos and Tony Award winner Trazana Beverly from the stage production, dancer Sarita Allen, and with noteworthy early-career performances by Alfre Woodard and Lynn Whitfield.
For Colored Girls brought a female and black perspective to the stage. According to Hilton Als in The New Yorker's Critic's Notebook (March 5, 2007), "...all sorts of people who might never have set foot in a Broadway house -- black nationalists, feminist separatists -- came to experience Shange's firebomb of a poem. ...[T]he disenfranchised heard a voice they could recognize, one that combined the trickster spirit of Richard Pryor with a kind of mournful blues."
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