The Tony Award®-winning Broadway revival of The Color Purple will play at Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts in Orange, Texas on Thursday, January 2, 2020. Tickets start at $55 and are available at lutcher.org. Group rates are available by calling the Lutcher Box Office at 409-886-5535.

Based on the Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment motion picture, The Color Purple is adapted for the stage by Tony- and Pulitzer-winner Marsha Norman with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray.  

The Color Purple is the 2016 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical Revival! Hailed as “a direct hit to the heart” (The Hollywood Reporter), this joyous American classic about a young woman’s journey to love and triumph in the American South has conquered Broadway in an all-new “ravishingly re-conceived production that is a glory to behold.” (New York Times)

The revival of The Color Purple opened to great acclaim in summer 2013 at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory, followed by a Broadway bow on November 10, 2015, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The Color Purple went on to win two 2016 Tony Awards®, including Best Revival of a Musical, two Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, the 2017 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album and a Daytime Emm