With The Color Purple heading into production, the musical remake already has a release date set for Dec. 23, 2023. It is currently unknown if the musical film will lean more into the 1985 film ...

The 2023 adaptation of The Color Purple stars Fantasia Barrino as Celie in her feature film debut, while Danielle Brooks plays Sofia among a star-studded cast that also includes Taraji P. Henson ...

Steven Spielberg, a Broadway show and now a movie musical all have tried to capture the queer love story in Alice Walker's novel. Here's how they did it — and why some argue they've all failed.

The stage musical adaptation — on which the new film is based — originally ran on Broadway between 2005 and 2008, while a successful, Tony-winning revival ran between 2015 and 2017. In this ...

Purple, the color purple, represents what’s beautiful in the world, the good things in creation. “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t ...

Prince's music is becoming a stage musical — eventually. Producer Orin Wolf announced Monday that he is developing a stage version of Purple Rain — the 1984, vaguely autobiographical film that ...