The Color Purple is a mid-tier movies-to-musical adaptation that falls just short of becoming a classic. Brenda Russell, ...

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Stagecrafters is gearing up for a range of reactions from the audiences who come out to see the emotion-packed, Tony Award-winning, moving musical “The Color Purple.” The show is running through Jan.

Chicago loves Celie, Sofia and Shug Avery, and has embraced “The Color Purple,” the 2005 Broadway musical based on both the beloved Alice Walker novel of strife, resilience and triumph in rural ...

It’s been more than 40 years since Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Walker was the first Black woman to win that coveted writing award. In the years since, ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. During the last 25 years, The Color Purple — once an eloquent story about a woman named Miss Celie — has become a full-blown, American institution. Twenty years ...

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Songwriters Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, and Stephen Bray share how hard they fought to finally be hired to write "The Color Purple" musical in exclusive "The World According to Allee Willis" clip.

The Color Purple, Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, makes its world debut as a musical in Atlanta on Friday. Playwright Marsha Norman wrote the book for the stage version of the story, ...