Offcolor 'Purple' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Ultimately more dutiful than truly dynamic as a serious Broadway musical, "The Color Purple" fails to click over into that higher artistic power that separates a hit from a near miss.
Today is Saturday, June 27, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Yancey Arias Michael Ball Michael Mayer Doc Pomus Lewis Allen Peter Bayliss I.A.L. Diamond Ray McDonald Richard Bissell Audrey Christie Billy Curtis Sydney Mason Maceo Pinkard Moroni Olsen Antoinette Perry George Stewart Carroll McComas Watson Barratt Reginald Mason Gertrude Graham William Clifford John Golden May Irwin Sandra Smith Joe Sikora Meera Syal Eric Simonson Jim Cartwright Julia Duffy Fred Stuthman Anthony Sbarbaro Jacques Deval