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India.Arie to Star in for colored girls at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Beginning August 19

Two-time Grammy Award winner India.Arie will make her Broadway debut in a new, re-envisioned production of Ntozake Shange’s acclaimed play, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, to begin previews at Circle in the Square Theatre August 19, with an opening set for September 8. Shirley Jo Finney will direct, with choreography by Hinton Battle. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

The show is a series of prose poems and stories illuminating the identity of black women in America, as they reveal themselves, their lives, triumphs, hardships and ultimately their discovery of inner strength and love. This production will feature new and updated material from the playwright, and is produced by Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group.

More at Theater Mania.

Official web site: www.forcoloredgirlsbway.com

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