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 ...

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 ...

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” — 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 ...

Aerie Williams as Shug Avery (L) and Brittney Mack as Celie in The Color Purple at the Goodman Theatre Credit: Brett Beiner Photography “If God ever listened to a poor colored woman, the world would ...

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 9.0 7107. National Book Award for Fiction, 1983. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1983. Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, ...

Because it dealt with so many unpopular themes — racism, sexism, homosexuality, rape, incest and more — at the outset it was seen by some as quite controversial. In fact, nominated for 11 Oscars, it ...

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