The world is awash with the color purple — lavender flowers, amethyst gemstones, plums, eggplants and purple emperor butterflies. But if you look closely at the visible-light portion of the ...

Groundbreaking film with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey was released in 1985. — -- Thirty years ago, the movie "The Color Purple" brought to the big screen a world audiences had scarcely seen ...

BroadwayWorld contributor Suzanne Whitaker offers her thumbs-up review of The Black theatre Troupe’s production of THE COLOR PURPLE. The Black Theatre Troupe presents THE COLOR PURPLE at Tempe Center ...

The Tony-winning musical "The Color Purple" will open at The Plaza Arts Center in Eatonton this Saturday. The musical is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker, who ...

Whoopi Goldberg is looking back at her casting in The Color Purple. “I remember being elated that Whoopi got the lead,” Fishburn, 63, who played Swain, said of costar Goldberg, 69, who played lead ...

As The Color Purple celebrates its 40th anniversary, the film remains a cultural cornerstone. We revisit the iconic story and find out what the cast is doing today. Even 40 years after its premiere, ...

It’s easy to see what attracted Aurora Theatre to the musical “The Color Purple.” A splashy, crowd-pleasing production, it’s also Georgia-based, and Aurora Producing Artistic Director Ann-Carol Pence ...

Based on Walker’s novel we follow Celie (Mariah Lyttle), a young black woman in a rural Georgia community in the early 1900’s. We follow her tragic journey going from the home of an abusive father to ...

There’s a gorgeous scene late in the second act of The Color Purple, currently onstage at Nashville Repertory Theatre. Here, the set’s towering back wall slowly opens to reveal a warm, shimmering glow ...

Are you a purple person? What comes to mind when you think of the hue? The first association you make with the color is likely along the lines of “royalty” or “regal.” That’s because purple is indeed ...