Two Lancaster theater companies had audience joy in mind as they planned 2022-23 seasons that kick off this month and next. The three different series of shows happening in the
Thunderous applause paused “The Color Purple” at Maine State Music Theater several times on opening night. It was clear from the first moment that this musical was genuine, raw, and truthful. Those lucky enough to be there could feel it in the air-.
For its third 2022 main stage production, Maine State Music Theatre has mounted a brilliant, beautiful, authentic, and heartwarming staging of the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s epistolary novel, THE COLOR PURPLE. This epic story chronicles the journeys of its complex characters through hardship and pain to hope and healing. Inspirational and uplifting, it is a tale of resilience, redemption, and love, that speaks with powerful universality, and in this stunning production, directed by E. Faye Butler, it becomes one of those unforgettable, transformative moments in the theatre.