Whoopi on Broadway -- As Producer

Whoopi Goldberg, taking a break from mid-morning gabfests on The View, will co-produce a couple of upcoming theater projects, beginning with a summer Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's 1976 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, starring India.Arie, according to Variety. She's also currently a member of the production team of new Rialto-bound musical Bricktop -- Queen of the Night, about a cabaret owner in the 1920s and '30s. For Colored Girls is slated to start previews in mid-July for an early August opening.