The Century City Playhouse presents the CCAP (Classic and Contemporary production of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf' written by Ntozoke Shange and directed by Hattie Winston. For Colored Girls... will open on Thursday, November 11 and continues through Saturday, November 20 at the Century City Playhouse, 10508 W. Pico Blvd. (at Patricia) on the Westside, across from the Rancho Park Golf Course.
For Colored Girls is a group of 20 poems for seven actors on the power of black women to survive in the face of despair and pain. It ran for seven months Off-Broadway in New York City, then moved to Broadway and was subsequently produced throughout the United States and on television.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it is to be of color and female in the twentieth century. The groundbreaking dramatic prose poem, written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world proves just as meaningful to twenty-first century audiences.
Richard Ford, Manager of the Century City Playhouse comments, "CCAP produces concert readings of important American plays, an amazing resource for LA theatre fans. These readings are a great opportunity to hear powerful plays with fantastic actors from theatre, film and television.”
For Colored Girls and the partnership with CCAP is the first in a series of productions at the Century City Playhouse that represent the move from a rental space into a small theatre with its own programming that centers around a commitment to American plays and musicals from writers with important voices, established and emerging. Next up at the Playhouse is Vox Humana Productions’ Scrooge Variations by award-winning playwright Eric R. Pfeffinger.
Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams in 1948. She graduated from Barnard College in 1970, and later earned an MA from the University of Southern California. It was there she changed her name to the Zulu “Ntozake” meaning “she who comes with her own things” and “Shange” meaning “who walks like a lion.” Her best known work, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf', was produced on Broadway and won an Obie Award in 1977 and became an international sensation. Several other plays and novels followed, including the 2004 children's book, Ellington Was Not a Street. She is a professor in the Women's Studies and African American Studies departments at the University of Florida at Gainesville.
The cast of 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf' features: Hattie Winston, Jackée Harry, Iona Morris, Portia Realer, and Dawnn Lewis. (Cast is subject to change.) Written by Ntozoke Shange; Directed by Hattie Winston. Limited engagement opens Thursday, November 11, 7:30 PM at the Century City Playhouse!
Performances for For Colored Girls... will be Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays November 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at 7:30pm, and Sunday, November 14 at 7:00pm. Ticket prices range from $ 15.00 - $ 20.00 (student and senior discounts are available). For tickets, call the Box Office at 310/204-4442 or visit the website http://www.centurycityplayhouse.net. Credit cards are accepted. Seating is limited.
Ample free parking is available on street and at the Rancho Park Golf Course lot located at Pico and Patricia. For on street parking, please read all parking signs carefully.
For more information or for press comps, please contact Richard Ford at 310/721-2211 or at rford@centurycityplayhouse.net.
The Century City Playhouse has been a fixture for quality theatre on the Westside for more than forty years and is now under new management. The playhouse is located at 10508 W. Pico Blvd, at the corner of Patricia and Pico, across the street from the Rancho Park Golf Course and next door to John O’Groat’s Restaurant. For further information, call (310) 204-4440. Fax number: (310) 204-2312. E-mail: info@centurycityplayhouse.net. Or visit our website at http://www.centurycityplayhouse.net.
Press Contact: Richard Ford, 310/721-2211
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