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A scene from “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” at the Public Theater.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

‘For Colored Girls’ Review:Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure

Camille A. Brown’s revival of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 Broadway landmark brings exuberant life to a play that celebrates Black women’s solidarity in the face of pain.

Don’t be fooled by the scaffolding that wraps around the exterior of the Booth Theater, doing its dour best to look uninviting. Inside is a Broadway homecoming celebration that you will not want to miss: the triumphant return of Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf” to the stage where it was a hit in 1976.

Triumphant, that is, because the director-choreographer Camille A. Brown’s thrilling and exuberant revival breathes warm, kinetic life into a canonical work that has been known to suffer from being treated — as it was at the Public Theater two seasons back — with a well intended but stifling reverence.

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