'FOR COLORED GIRLS' RETURNS, AS A CELEBRATION AND AS A WEAPON
(Laura Collins-Hughes's article appeared in The New York Times, 9/13; via Pam Green.)  Ntozake Shange's play, with its unflinching depiction of black women's experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there. It doesn't matter how famous a play you've written, or how deeply embedded in the culture it's become. […]