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, ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Walker’s timeless novel “The Color Purple” is returning to the big screen for the first time in four decades. Steven ...

(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 ...

Walker, once best known for her novel The Color Purple, has more recently been known for supporting anti-semetic conspiracy theories and now, is joining in on TERF conspiracy theories, saying that J.K ...

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, ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM - American writer Alice Walker won't let an Israeli publisher release a new Hebrew edition of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple," saying she objects to Israel's treatment ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'The Color Purple' author Alice Walker is opening up about the importance of seeing Celie and Shug's romance on screen in the new ...