THE COLOR PURPLE is the 2016 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival! Hailed as "a direct hit to the heart" (The Hollywood Reporter), this joyous American classic, directed by Tony winner John ...

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 ...

Reel Music puts movie music front and center.This week, hear the powerful score Quincy Jones wrote for The Color Purple, music that carries the pain, strength, and hope of the story.Film music that ...

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 ...

After Danielle Deadwyler’s snub I don’t put anything past the Academy. The Color Purple could be a masterpiece and still get snubbed. Black and brown and other POC talent doesn’t get the same ...

*The co-director of Beyoncé’s Disney+ visual album “Black Is King,” is set to direct a movie musical based on the Tony-winning Broadway reimagining of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel “The Color Purple.” ...

“The Color Purple” is coming back to the big screen…as a musical! The celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Alice Walker first made its award-winning big screen debut in 1985. Now, with the help ...