Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls to Receive Public Forum Reading
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The Public Theater will present a 40th-anniversary reading of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf as part of its winter 2016 and spring 2017 Public Forum season.
The reading will take place on Monday, February 27, at 7pm in the Public's Newman Theatre, with casting still to be announced. The iconic choreopoem premiered at Studio Rivbea in 1975 before transferring to the Henry Street Settlement, and later, the Public Theater in 1976. It opened on Broadway later that year, where it ran for 742 performances.
The Public Forum series will also include a conversation with Cheryl Strayed, whose book Tiny Beautiful Things has been adapted for a new Public production starring Nia Vardalos. Strayed's conversation with Deborah Needleman will take place on December 5 at 7pm. Also in December, the Public will present a reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner, featuring Wilder’s nephew and literary executor Tappan Wilder, Eisa Davis, Chef Evan Hanczor, and more.
The Public Forum season will also include A Conversation on the Legacy of Radical Protest, parts 2 and 3, on April 3 and May 1, as well as a festival devoted to the art of songwriting, hosted by Public Forum director Michael Friedman, May 17-20.
