Arts & Sciences Magazine > Spring 2025, Volume 22, Number 2 > Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theater Company

By Magazine Staff

Photos by Will Kirk

Issue: Spring 2025

Students in the Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theater Company celebrated art, identity, and community with a late winter production of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The production was directed by company co-founder Benedict A. Dorsey and molecular and cellular biology junior Amaka Chukwura.

actors performing dance number on stage of show "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
Scenes from the performance. Photography by Will Kirk.
A group of Black female student actors standing together smiling
Scenes from the performance. Phototgraphy by Will Kirk.
one woman speaking with another in the background and a shelf with wig stands above
Scenes from the performance. Photography by Will Kirk.
a woman standing alone on a tiled floor with darkness behind her
Scenes from the performance. Photography by Will Kirk.
Scenes from Dunbar Hughes Theater Company's performance of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
Scenes from the performance. Phototography by Will Kirk.

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