After reading the book of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 musical For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, a show about the violence endured by seven Black women, Ryan Calais Cameron had an idea. It was 2011, and within a year he was writing a play—For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy. The project came further into focus in 2012, when Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed on a walk home from buying Skittles. As Calais Cameron told The Guardian, “I remember thinking: ‘I’m a young Black boy in a hood, what does that mean? Does that mean my life doesn’t count for anything?’” The show sees six young Black men meeting for group therapy. Following sold-out runs at New Diorama and the Royal Court Theatre, the shows heads to Jerwood Theatre. —Jensen Davis