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The producers of The Color Purple announced today that the show will play its final performance on Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 7:30pm, after playing 30 preview performances and 910 regular performances at the Broadway Theatre.
Zonya Love made her Broadway debut as Celie, alongside recording-stars Chaka Khan as Sofia and BeBe Winans as Harpo yesterday, Wednesday January 9, 2008, in the smash hit musical 'The Color Purple' with LaKisha Jones, and produced by Oprah Winfrey.
The Color Purple opened at Center Theatre Group's Ahmanson Theatre December 16th, bringing the National Tour to Los Angeles for the holiday season, running through March 9, 2008...
Transforming such a momentous story into a staged musical, as bookwriter Marsha Norman has done with The Color Purple, could not have been an easy task. What has ended up on stage more closely resembles a Disney spin on history, rather than a gritty realization of historical abuse. Yet, it strikes a soulful chord with a gospel and jazz aged sensibility, giving the musical an otherwise absent poignant heartbeat.
The LA Times reports Oprah Winfrey, legendary American talk-show host and producer of Broadway's The Color Purple, may be planning a stage-to-screen adaptation of the hit musical production.
Sonnet Repertory Theatre (SRT) presented 'Sonnet Sings: The Bard,' the company's annual benefit event on Monday, November 12 at 6PM at HA! Comedy Club
Sonnet Repertory Theatre (SRT) announces the lineup for 'Sonnet Sings: The Bard,' the company's annual benefit event. Scheduled performers include: two time Tony-nominated actor Terrence Mann and Tony award-winning and Grammy award-nominated composer Duncan Sheik, performing their original songs, in addition to Will Chase, Bradley Dean, Brian D'Arcy James, David Miller, Brandon Wardell, Q. Smith, and Rachel Ulanet.
Miss White House, the new Off-Broadway, one-woman show about a candidate trying to fulfill her dreams of becoming the President of the United States, will begin previews at the 45th Street Theatre on Friday, November 16, 2007. The official opening will be on Tuesday, November 20, 2007. The production features actress Kaitlin Stillwell.
Champion Charities will host the 4th Annual 'Night at the Theatre' with Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple on Saturday, December 8.
MCC Theatre will not produce The Black Suits, a musical that was originally to have been the third and final show of the company's 22nd Off Broadway season.
The West Coast premiere of Oprah Winfrey's new musical, The Color Purple began performances at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre October 9, running through Sunday, December 9.
The Color Purple, The Musical about Love, announces that tickets will go on sale Sunday, September 23 at 11AM for the Los Angeles engagement of the first North American touring production at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre at the Los Angeles Music Center for 12 weeks only, December 13, 2007, through March 9, 2008.
Though this work is often revived,'night Mother is rarely revived well. The most current incarnation, which opened last night at the Theatre Building Chicago, is the exception.
On September 24 at 8PM, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama will speak on Broadway at the beautifully refurbished New Amsterdam Theater
Hancock Productions presents in repertory the world premiere spy thriller The Brother (through November 18) and Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winning 'night Mother (September 14 through November 18) at the Theatre Building Chicago.
The cast of 'The Color Purple' will appear at Sidetrack, Chicago's premiere video bar on September 9 for meet and greet plus tickets and merchandise giveaways.
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre before moving to San Francisco
Due to popular demand, the first North American Tour of the Broadway smash hit The Color Purple will add four final weeks to its Chicago engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) before moving to San Francisco
The All-Brite Laundromat at 1366 Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton, Mass., is the unusual 'theater' currently playing host to 'Third and Oak: The Laundromat,' a tautly written and tenderly moving one-act play by Marsha Norman.
The SHN-SF 2007-08 Best of Broadway season includes 'The Color Purple,' 'The Wiz,' 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' and 'The Drowsy Chaperone.'
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