Fort Wayne Civic Theatre’s production of “The Color Purple: The Musical” opens Friday and runs through Feb. 18. The show’s cast includes Timya Townsend as Celie, Rockell Allen as Shug Avery and ...

2016 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical Cynthia Erivo 2016 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Musical John Doyle 2016 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a ...

2006 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Actress in a Musical La Chanze 2006 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Broadway Musical 0 2006 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Featured ...

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is simply too monumental a work to be reduced to a single, “definitive” adaptation. Like any classic, the 1982 epistolary novel – in which Celie, a Black woman in ...

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.

It’s been said that all good stories are about a transformation. And what’s happened to Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, “The Color Purple,” is indeed a very interesting transformation. This Pulitzer- and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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Thank you, Tasiandee, for keeping such good track of who’s playing who. If this really is our cast, then I have enormous confidence in this film. Especially since the director co-directed Beyoncé’s ...