(AP)--Tyler Perry, whose name usually adorns the titles to his films, hasn't disowned his latest, the simply dubbed "For Colored Girls." On the contrary, his gesture of seeming humility is a ...

Critics around the country have mostly rolled their eyes at the notion that filmmaker Tyler Perry could do justice to Ntozake Shange's iconic 1976 play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide ...

“For Colored Girls” is not easy. Its poetry is hot and searing, its story an unbroken current of rage and pain and sex and abuse and solidarity and self and empowerment. Nine women — in screams, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The release on Friday of ‘For Colored Girls,’ the movie version of ...

Coming to the Killeen area June 8 is a local rendition of Ntozake Shange’s musical “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” as well as the Tyler Perry 2010 remake “For ...

Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has captivated audiences for nearly 50 years. Since its Broadway debut in 1976, the late Shange’s ‘choreo-poem’ ...

Taking a successful play from the stage to the movies can be very tricky. For every AMADEUS and A FEW GOOD MEN there’s a AGNES OF GOD or NIGHT, MOTHER that just doesn’t connect. Tyler Perry has a good ...