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.

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 ...

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, ...

"The Color Purple" musical—based on the 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker—is a poignant tale of resilience, love, and redemption set against the backdrop of rural Georgia in the early ...

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 ...

The musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel seemed an instant hit, but it sold less than $5 million in tickets in its second weekend. By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles “The ...

Stagecrafters has announced its upcoming production of the Tony Award-winning musical, The Color Purple, running from January 10-26 at the Baldwin Theatre in Royal Oak. Based on the Pulitzer ...

'The Handmaid’s Tale' by Margaret Atwood, 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison and 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker also made the list PEN America's 50 Most-Banned Books list has been updated for the ...