India.Arie has been cast to star in the first-ever Broadway revival of the classic Ntozake Shange play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

The Tony-winning play presents the interwoven stories of seven women from the African Diaspora and originally opened its two-year Broadway run in the summer of 1976.

Scheduled for a mid-July preview and early-August opening, the show will be produced by Whoopi Goldberg. So far, Arie is the only confirmed cast member.