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For Colored Girls: A Messy, Miserable Melodrama
Comments (5) | Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf, Film and TV, For Colored Girls, Ntozake Shange, Tyler Perry
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For Colored Girls (Lionsgate)

How did a play about black female identity and empowerment turn into a movie about how hard it is to rise above all of the nonsense that men put them through?



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Review: "The Color Purple" At The Fred Kavli Theatre
Comments (39) | Alice Walker, Celie, Dayna Jarae Dantzler, Fred Kavi Theatre, gospel, Harpo, Lee Colston, musical, Pulitzer Prize, Soul, Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, Theater and Dance, Whoopi Goldberg
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The musical is just as alive today.



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Preview: "The Color Purple" At The Fred Kavli Theatre
Comments (0) | Alice Walker, Fred Kavli Theater, Harpo, Lee Colston, musical, Pulitzer Prize, The Color Purple, Theater and Dance, Thousand Oaks, Tony Award
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One cast member opens up about the show's significance.



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