For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
Artist
Paul Davis
United States, born 1938
Date1976
MediumOffset Lithograph
Dimensions81 x 41 in. (205.7 x 104.1 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6613
DescriptionWritten by Ntosake Shange, For Colored Girls is a theater piece consisting of monologues, songs, and dance relaying the stories of six Black women and their struggles in an racist, misogynistic society. The Broadway poster features Shange, who also starred in the downtown production, against a tiled backdrop. These tiles were matched to actual subway tiles, creating the illusion that the poster’s graffiti-style title had been scrawled directly on the subway wall. Paul Davis was commissioned to design the poster by Papp when he called the artist and cast together to announce that the show would be moving from the Public’s Anspacher Theater to Broadway, just next door to A Chorus Line, which he had also produced. This remains Davis’s most sought-after theater poster. On View
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