Danielle Brooks says she’s "owning" her power as Sofia in the 2023 iteration of “The Color Purple.” Sofia starts off "The Color Purple" brazen and smart-mouthed, a contrast to shy Celie (Fantasia) — ...

"That changes the game," Danielle Brooks says of taking the tribulations her character faces in "The Color Purple" from the imaginings of the stage to playing them out vividly while shooting the film.

Actress Danielle Brooks is setting into some big shoes with her role in the upcoming musical adaptation of “The Color Purple,” filling a role played on-screen initially by Oprah Winfrey. During an ...

Danielle Brooks knows The Color Purple’s Sofia inside out. She spent a year as the boisterous wife in the Broadway revival in 2015, and boasts that she knows everything from the character’s Zodiac ...

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Danielle Brooks is happily sharing what the reaction has been like from moviegoers who have seen her portrayal of Sofia in the remake of the 1985 film, The Color Purple, in which Oprah Winfrey played ...

The latest rendering of "The Color Purple," the movie musical based on the stage musical based on the movie based on Alice Walker's original novel, comes alive thanks to strong performances from a ...

Danielle Brooks is definitely overjoyed at her Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for The Color Purple, after all the many, many years of hard graft she has put into her craft. However, she ...

A period drama adaptation viewers call 'emotional' has earned an impressive 95% Rotten Tomatoes score, but it is set to leave ...

Every job comes with risks and actors aren’t exempt from them. Danielle Brooks, an actress and star in The Color Purple musical adaptation, opened up about the unexpected physical effects of playing ...

It’s easy to see what attracted Aurora Theatre to the musical “The Color Purple.” A splashy, crowd-pleasing production, it’s also Georgia-based, and Aurora Producing Artistic Director Ann-Carol Pence ...

Danielle Brooks assumed that her Tony-nominated, Grammy-winning performance as the strong-willed, blunt-talking Sofia Butler in the Broadway revival of “The Color Purple” might make her an obvious ...