Photo: Matthew Murphy

A gospel-, blues- and jazz-filled stage spectacle, The Color Purple comes to the Boch Center’s Shubert Theatre November 21–December 3. Like the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker upon which it is based, the stage adaptation tells the epic story of Celie from youth to adulthood as she journeys from tragedy to triumph in the American South of the early 20th century. First brought to Broadway in 2005, this re-imagined production took home the 2016 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical before closing its smash-hit run earlier this year and hitting the road this fall.