Broadway: Does "The Great White Way" Live Up to Its Name?

The Theatre Times: Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuff, once said: “My goal is to be a primary, not a secondary source.” It’s a goal that more African-American thespians, filmmakers, and documentary makers all over the world should adopt in order to, as we say in East Africa, ‘tell the story properly.’ Outsiders looking in may have the best of intentions but not be able to capture the soul of Black folk.