India.Arie Heads to Broadway
Theater
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | June 25, 2008
The Grammy Award-winning singer India.Arie will make her Broadway debut in Ntozake Shange's play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf," the DreamTeam Entertainment Group announced Wednesday. Whoopi Goldberg will co-produce the play.
"For Colored Girls," which will be directed by Shirley Jo Finney, is made up of 20 poems performed by nine women, each identified not by a name but by a color. The poems, written and first performed in 1975, piece together a depiction of the experience of black women in post-civil-rights-era America. Tony Award winner Hinton Battle will choreograph the play, which will open September 8 at Circle in the Square Theatre.
