The Color Purple

Actors Theatre is thrilled to engage in a second partnership with Redline Performing Arts in November by presenting their production of The Color Purple, based upon the novel by Alice Walker and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment Motion Picture, with a book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray. The Color Purple tells the story of a young African American girl named Celie who lives in rural Georgia in the early 1900s. Deemed inferior in the United States' caste system, Celie encounters racism, sexism, abuse, and challenges to her own sexuality. She perseveres thanks to her relationships with other women, such as her sister Nettie and her lover Shug Avery.