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.

Inside a clear case on Level 3 of Emory University’s Woodruff Library, is a dark green spiral notebook, its innards crammed with small, flowing handwriting. The thoughts on those pages birthed a ...

“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 ...

Alice Walker’s timeless novel “The Color Purple” is returning to the big screen for the first time in four decades. Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated 1985 adaptation followed a young Black woman ...

The new musical adaptation of Alice Walker's book explores the romance between Shug and Celie, unlike Steven Spielberg's original 1985 film, which only featured a chaste kiss between the characters.

Director Blitz Bazawule’s fresh-eyed remake synthesizes elements from both the Broadway show — where Fantasia Barrino played Celie 15 years earlier — and Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1985 film. Now, ...

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 ...

Me, then a bookish young teen read Alice Walker's marvelous The Color Purple. In Celie's letters, I discover a Black girl's voice and subjectivity that resonates with an unspoken longing in my lonely, ...

(JTA) – The bright, colorful movie musical “The Color Purple,” which opens in theaters on Christmas, tells a story that has by now become a familiar part of the American canon — of a young Black woman ...

“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 ...

Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Colored Purple,” will speak at this year’s Mississippi Book Festival as the event returns to an in-person format after two years of being held ...