KCRep’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

Friday October 25, 2019 • 8:00PM • Copaken Stage • $35-63

1 H and R Block Way, Kansas City, MO 64105, Kansas City, MO, 64105
8:00PM

At a time when there were few stories about women of color, poet-activist-novelist-playwright Ntozake Shange penned a now-seminal and treasured work of American Theatre. Seven African American women, each identified solely by a color, traverse class, gender, sexuality, and geography in this highly personal ‘choreopoem.’ “Remarkable,” says The New York Times, “a joyous celebration” that weaves word and dance into something genuinely special, something to “be savored and treasured.”