'The Color Purple' movie musical starring Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks, releases in theaters Dec. 25 Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He joined ...

"The Color Purple" director Blitz Bazawule shared several behind-the-scenes videos of the film's dancers. One clip showed the cast singing the gospel hit "Melodies from Heaven." Bazawule thanked the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

So, she is renting out a theater in Dothan, Alabama, on Christmas Day for 165 of her relatives to watch the film together. Everyone, she said, has been asked to wear purple. “It’s just a great ...

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 ...