Ntozake Shange Back in the Spotlight

“Her feminist war cry of a play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, is [her] signature work, produced on Broadway in 1976 when she was in her 20s. Now 61, her speech and movements slowed by a series of minor strokes but her intensity undimmed, Ms. Shange is having another moment, or two, this fall.”