Actress Janet Jackson, left, and author Ntozake Shange attend a special screening of &#8220;For Colored Girls&#8221; at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York, in 2010. Playwright, poet and author Ntozake Shange, whose most acclaimed theater piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated play &#8220;For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,&#8221; died Oct. 27. She was 70.