The Tony-winning musical "The Color Purple" will open at The Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton this Saturday. The musical is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker, who ...

An American novel classic has made its way its hometown stage. For the first time since the book was released in 1982 and its film adaptation in 1985, “The Color Purple” premiered as a musical ...

“The Color Purple” — a movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring unknown movie actors Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery ...

It’s easy to see what attracted Aurora Theatre to the musical “The Color Purple.” A splashy, crowd-pleasing production, it’s also Georgia-based, and Aurora Producing Artistic Director Ann-Carol Pence ...

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, ...

“The Color Purple” still resonates today. Theatre Charlotte is bringing Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the stage May 8-24 at 501 Queens Road. Tickets are $34 for adults, $28 for seniors and $20 for ...

Ahead of Mother’s Day, we revisit Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Color Purple’, a narrative that challenged ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been 40 years since “The Color Purple” hit theaters on Dec. 18, 1985. The film, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey, was a screen adaptation of Alice ...

This summer is the first time the Goodman Theatre has staged the musical, based on the classic Alice Walker novel. It’s organized chaos at rehearsal for The Color Purple on a recent afternoon at the ...

Because it dealt with so many unpopular themes — racism, sexism, homosexuality, rape, incest and more — at the outset it was seen by some as quite controversial. In fact, nominated for 11 Oscars, it ...

THE COLOR PURPLE will be directed by Kandace Crystal, musical direction by Leigh Scarritt, and choreography by Alyssa “Ajay” Junious. This will be the final production of the 22nd season, performed on ...

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