Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Color Purple first opened on Broadway in 2005, starring LaChanze in her ...

Nestled amid a tale of hardship and torment, “Keep It Movin'” is a bright spot in the newly released adaptation of “The Color Purple.” Just as sisters Nettie and Celie (Halle Bailey and Phylicia Pearl ...

Female musicians and artists of color are slowly working their way up the popular charts and earning a larger share of accolades than ever before, a new study on gender and racial equity by University ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The acclaimed actress and producer, who won a Tony Award for playing the role of ...

Broadway star LaChanze doesn’t need Warner Bros. to love her, but she does want financial compensation for helping write a pivotal song from “The Color Purple.” The three-time Tony Award winner, who ...

*NSYNC and Jack Black songs also missed the cut, while "Flora and Son" has two numbers on the songs shortlist. Oscar’s music branch has had its say, naming 15 original scores and 15 songs to its ...

While the Original Song Oscar shortlist is typically good about spreading the wealth around, three movies dominated close to half the spaces. Barbie nabbed noms for three songs, while The Color Purple ...

Broadway’s original “The Color Purple” actress and singer Rhonda LaChanze Sapp, known professionally as LaChanze, called out the 2023 film Tuesday for allegedly failing to pay her for lyrics she says ...

Fantasia Barrino in 'The Color Purple' Courtesy of Warner Bros. Alice Walker started the phenomenon with her Pulitzer-winning 1982 book, and three years later Steven Spielberg turned it into a movie ...

Modern Color have been around for more than a decade, and they’ve locked down a kind of muscular, melodic post-hardcore that doesn’t really belong to any particular genre. It’s dreamy and heavy at the ...