Two women kneel, facing one another with their hands clasped. They are both smiling brightly.

First Look: The Color Purple

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A Pulitzer Prize. A National Book Award. 11 Academy Award Nominations. Four Golden Globe Nominations. Three Tony Awards. Few stories have had the cultural significance and lasting power of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.

Beloved by audiences worldwide, The Color Purple traces one woman’s fraught journey towards freedom and self-love. It is a triumphant, uplifting piece of art that reaffirms some fundamental truths: that Black is beautiful, that women are powerful, and that love is love.

Take a look at some of the production photos below.

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Two women kneel, facing one another with their hands clasped. They are both smiling brightly.
A woman sings while standing on a chair. She's wearing a glittering red dress. People clap and dance around her.
Three women wearing decorative hats and long, colorful skirts laugh and talk with one another.
On the left, a woman sings with one arm outstretched, reaching for something we can't see. On the right, a woman sings while reading a letter.
A woman stands with her arms outstretched, belting a song onstage.
A group of women dressed in traditional African clothing sing onstage in The Color Purple.
A man stands alone onstage with the shadows of of several people standing behind him outlined in the set backdrop.
Several women sing onstage, clustered together with their arms outstretched. The woman in front is standing on a chair as she belts out a note.
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