The Color Purple abides not only as a literary achievement but as a cultural landmark, its echoes felt in classrooms, theatres and film screens around the world.

Based on the Broadway musical by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, Stephen Bray and Marsha Norman (which in turn is based on Alice Walker’s best-selling novel), the awards-nominated movie stars Taraji P.

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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 ...

This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course ...

An empowering and uplifting spectacle, “The Color Purple” is one of the best movies of 2023. Based on Alice Walker’s novel, the new big-screen adaptation reimagines the beloved 1985 film and ...

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, ...

I wrote a review of The Color Purple movie almost forty years ago in a student newspaper. I was sure not to read it while stealing away time to configure words to describe style, rhythm, content, ...

Urban Arts Collective presents The Color Purple. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden ...