(L-R) Taraji P. Henson, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks in 'The Color Purple' Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most ...

BlackRock Center for the Arts will present "The Color Purple" as the second in-house produced musical in its history. This musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the ...

Fantasia Barrino plays Alice Walker’s oppressed heroine in a joyous screen version of the Broadway musical. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Released in theaters at Christmas, The Color Purple is not ...

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, ...

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.