The director Blitz Bazawule narrates a scene from the musical, featuring the star performing as the dynamo Shug Avery. By Mekado Murphy In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets ...

It seems Danielle Brooks and Oprah Winfrey had a blast on the set of "The Color Purple." On Jan. 3, Winfrey took to Instagram to share a behind-the-scenes video of her and Brooks reciting their ...

Sofia (Brooks), Shug (Taraji P. Henson), and Celie (Fantasia Barrino) gather for Easter dinner in this clip from the double SAG nominee.

Maybe it was required reading in high school, perhaps you watched the Steven Speilberg-directed film in theaters or it's possible you became smitten with the story when you saw it as a Broadway ...

The Color Purple is an American masterpiece. “This story lives forever,” says Taraji P. Henson, quite emphatically. “It’s like Shakespeare. It’s never going to go away.” Henson, who plays Shug Avery ...

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...

NEW YORK — "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker's “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...

A new take on The Color Purple comes to theaters on Christmas Day. This new adaptation is a musical drama that takes from both Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the subsequent Broadway ...