For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Name: For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Start: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-05T22:00:00-04:00
Location: 115 West 1st St., Sanford, FL, United States, Florida 32771

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

115 West 1st St., Sanford, FL, United States, Florida 32771 | Sanford, FL

WRITTEN by Ntozake Shange
SEPTEMBER 5-21
This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women.
Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls... offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music and poetry.
After early performances in California and on the East Coast, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf opened at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in March 1976 and quickly moved moved off-Broadway to Joseph Papp's Public Theater. A few months later, the show made its Broadway debut, opening at the Booth Theatre on September 15, 1976.