The musical is adapted, deeply abridged and somewhat softened from both Alice Walker’s 1982 novel and the 1985 film.

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.

Brévo Theatre presents the South Florida premiere of The Color Purple, a musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the 1985 Steven Spielberg film. The epic story follows ...

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 ...

The decades-spanning story follows a Black woman named Celie who overcomes trauma, finds love and learns to forgive. Steven Spielberg directed the 1985 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, which was adapted ...

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 ...

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.

Last month it was announced that a film version of the musical will be released in cinemas – microbes permitting – in December 2023. In the meanwhile the Leicester Curve production, in conjunction ...