Ntozake Shange News

InnateVolution Theater Productions in Chicago will present Ntozake Shange's FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF from June 14 to June 26. The production will be directed by Toma Tavares Langston with choreography by Shawn Quinlan.

InnateVolution Theater Productions Artistic Director Toma Tavares Langston and choreographer Shawn Quinlan stage Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.

InnateVolution Theater Productions in Chicago will present Ntozake Shange's FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF from June 14 to June 26. The production will be directed by Toma Tavares Langston with choreography by Shawn Quinlan.

ANNE CATTANEO is the dramaturg of Lincoln Center Theater and the creator and head of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors' Lab. A three term past president of Literary Mangers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, she is the recipient of LMDA's first Lessing Award for lifetime achievement of dramaturgy. She has worked widely as a dramaturg on classical plays with directors such as James Lapine, Robert Wilson, Adrian Hall, Robert Falls, Mark Lamos and JoAnne Akalaitis. As the director of the Playworks Program at the Phoenix Theater during the late 1970's, she commissioned and developed plays by Wendy Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic) Mustapha Matura (Meetings) and Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy). For the Acting Company, she created two projects: Orchards (published by Knopf and Broadway Play Publishing) which presented seven Chekhov stories adapted for the stage by Maria Irene Fornes, Spalding Gray, John Guare, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Weller and Samm-Art Williams, and Love's Fire (published by William Morrow) responses to Shakespeare sonnets by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Wendy Wasserstein. Her own translations of 20th Century German playwrights include Brecht's Galileo (Goodman Theater 1986 starring Brian Dennehy) and Botho Strauss' Big And Little (Phoenix production starring Barbara Barrie, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) She is currently on the faculty at Juilliard.

InnateVolution Theater Productions Artistic Director Toma Tavares Langston and choreographer Shawn Quinlan stage Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.

Passage Theatre, Trenton's premiere professional theater company, has announced the full cast for Trenton Lights, a new play with music, directed by Adam Immerwahr. The production runs May 20 through June 6 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton. (Press Opening: Saturday, May 22 at 8pm).

In the month of June, New York City will experience a groundbreaking theatrical event. Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre, in association with the Castillo Theatre on West 42nd Street and Harlem's National Black Theatre on 125th Street, will present 25 plays by the greatest Black playwrights of all time.

Community Access' 'Art Collective Program' teaches people to create original works of art, with a focus on designing, writing and constructing hand-crafted books. Ntozake Shange has joined forces with Community Access as a visiting artist in its New York City-based art program for people with psychiatric disabilities.

Those who have been unable to reserve seats to The Fountain Theatre's sold out production of The Ballad of Emmett Till will get another chance. The Fountain Theatre has announced a third extension through May 30.

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is presenting free performances by artists participating in its LAUNCH artists residency program: Why I Had to Dance on May 28 and 29 and Bobby Selvaggio's 'Hendectet Jazz Collective' on June 5.

In the month of June, New York City will experience a groundbreaking theatrical event. Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre, in association with the Castillo Theatre on West 42nd Street and Harlem's National Black Theatre on 125th Street, will present 25 plays by the greatest Black playwrights of all time.

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is presenting free performances by artists participating in its LAUNCH artists residency program: Why I Had to Dance on May 28 and 29 and Bobby Selvaggio's 'Hendectet Jazz Collective' on June 5.

People.com is reporting that Mariah Carey has pulled out of Tyler Perry's next film, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, which is also set to star revealed that Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Jurnee Smollett, Kimberly Elise, Kerry Washington, and Macy Gray. Filming had been scheduled to begin in June. No reason has been given for the sudden withdraw. Cindi Berger, a rep for Carey merely stated that she is 'not at liberty to discuss her personal life at this time.' For many, this move fuels rumors that Carey may be pregnant, however, the songbird has been mum on the subject. No replacement possibilities for Carey have been announced.

The Castillo Theatre is holding its twelfth annual Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre on Sunday, May 23 at the Castillo Theatre at 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) in New York City at 2:00 p.m.

Passage Theatre, Trenton's premiere professional theater company, has announced the full cast for Trenton Lights, a new play with music, directed by Adam Immerwahr. The production runs May 20 through June 6 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton. (Press Opening: Saturday, May 22 at 8pm).

The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is presenting free performances by artists participating in its LAUNCH artists residency program: Why I Had to Dance on May 28 and 29 and Bobby Selvaggio's 'Hendectet Jazz Collective' on June 5.

InnateVolution Theater Productions in Chicago will present Ntozake Shange's FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF from June 14 to June 26. The production will be directed by Toma Tavares Langston with choreography by Shawn Quinlan.

Passage Theatre, Trenton's premiere professional theater company, has announced the full cast for Trenton Lights, a new play with music, directed by Adam Immerwahr. The production runs May 20 through June 6 at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton. (Press Opening: Saturday, May 22 at 8pm).

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will honor their board member Rosemarie Tichler, the highly-respected producer, casting director, teacher and author, at this year's annual benefit gala Monday evening, May 17 at Twenty Four Fifth. The Honorary Chair for the evening is Mike Nichols and Honorary Co-Chairs are Olympia Dukakis, Dianne Wiest, Walter Bobbie and James Lapine. Honorary Artists include F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Durang, Michael Greif, John Guare, Bill Irwin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn and Michael Stuhlbarg.

The Castillo Theatre is holding its twelfth annual Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre on Sunday, May 23 at the Castillo Theatre at 543 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) in New York City at 2:00 p.m.