THE COLOR PURPLE - Brown Betty - Mercury Theater Chicago
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musical THE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
THE COLOR PURPLE - Hell No - Mercury Theater Chicago
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musical THE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning nove…
THE COLOR PURPLE - Opening Act - Mercury Theater Chicago
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musical THE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Patrick Healy wrote in the NYTimes about John Doyle's production, which I wrote a little bit about earlier this month. See below for an excerpt from Healy's article: Mr. Doyle has built a …
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents the Broadway musicalTHE COLOR PURPLE, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, now previewing and officially opens …
Just last week, Oprah Winfrey chatted with The New York Daily News about her long-professed desire to take to the stage. Now according to the New York Times, the media mogul is looking into …
Talk show mogul Oprah Winfrey recently discussed her dreams of making her Broadway debut, and now she could be producing a newly imagined musical adaptation of The Color Purple on the Great …
Trisha Jeffrey, whose Broadway credits include Rent, Little Shop of Horrors and All Shook Up, stars as Celie in The Color Purple, which begins Aug. 14 at the Mercury Theater in Chicago.
- I had trouble sticking to the critics' code of not giving a standing ovation to a performance, as only the infirm were left in their chairs at the curtain call!
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe Color Purple, a bestselling African-American classic about a southern girl's redemptive journey from family enslavement to self-realisation, has become t…
At 26, and only a few years out of drama school, Cynthia Erivo is making the sort of London theater splash of which dreams are made. The diminutive powerhouse opened on July 15 at the Menier…
In London, John Doyle has made an honest musical out of "The Color Purple," and an academic makes a deal with the Devil in "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart."
Michael Coveney
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★★★★ This is the kind of musical theatre the Menier does best: a fresh, stripped back look at a past Broadway hit with a smart, tight ba…
As the stage version of The Color Purple arrives in Britain, writer Candace Allen recalls the upset and uproar the novel caused among African AmericansThe first page took your breath aw…
This is the kind of musical theatre the Menier does best: a fresh, stripped back look at a past Broadway hit with a smart, tight band and a hand-picked cast bursting at the seams. John Doyl…
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonI am sometimes accused of failing to report audience reactions. So let me say unequivocally that this musical version of Alice Walker's 1982 novel was greeted…
Menier Chocolate Factory, London: The Menier Chocolate Factory's pedigree in reinventing established Broadway hits from La Cage Aux Folles to such Sondheim classics as Sunday in the Pa…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
A story about rape, incest, domestic violence and racist abuse is an unlikely recipe for a musical, yet a Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple…
A joyful noise? Hell, yes. Alice Walker's Pulitzer-winning 1982 feminist novel set in Georgia and spanning more than 30 years is crammed with suffering, injustice and cruelty. But in its cha…
Opening Monday
The Color Purple15 July 2013(Previews from 5 July) The musical based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory. Starring C…
