From the opening shot of Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of The Color Purple, audiences will know this is not their mother’s version of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. Distinct from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film ...

“The Color Purple” is a work that has resonated with the Black community, especially Black women who have overwhelmingly supported the book, the original 1985 film and the Broadway shows. They will ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Goodman Theatre’s production of The ...

The retelling of “The Color Purple,” due to hit theaters on Christmas Day, will either put fresh bruises on our collective psyche or add new shades of understanding to the Black experience, depending ...

“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker is a moving tale about Celie Harris, a young African-American woman who experiences abuse from both her father and her husband. The new movie musical of the same ...

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is disappointed in the way the latest adaptation of author Alice Walker’s The Color Purple depicted the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel’s central lesbian relationship. The 2023 ...

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...

A new take on The Color Purple comes to theaters on Christmas Day. This new adaptation is a musical drama that takes from both Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the subsequent Broadway ...