Bernard B Jacobs theater, New YorkJohn Doyle's streamlined version of Alice Walker's novel features fine performances from a vocally confident Hudson and the remarkable ErivoYou won't find much actual purple in The Color Purple, John Doyle's simplified restaging of the formerly florid Broadway musical. At one point the nightclub singer Shug (Jennifer Hudson, making her Broadway debut) steps onstage in a periwinkle su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:45AM on December 11, 2015