“The Color Purple” is on stage now at the Civic Theatre!

AshLee “PsyWrn Simone” Baskin, who plays Shug Avery and Jonathan Studdard, who plays Preacher, Ol’ Mister and works as equity and diversity liaiso at the Civic Theatre, joined us today to share what we can expect from the show.

You can see it now through October 23.

This show is the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning story of hope and a celebration of life. The joyous jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music, and blues score sets the musical apart from the acclaimed 1985 film.

For more information visit, civictheatre.org.

Let’s go On The Aisle with Tom Alvarez, theater critic, to see what’s coming up on the Indy arts scene.

Randy Rainbow

• The Palladium
• Oct. 7
• thecenterpresents.org

Alabaster

• Phoenix Theatre
• Oct. 7 – 31
• phoenixtheatre.org

The Color Purple

• Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre
• Oct. 8-23
• thecenterpresents.org

The Laramie Project

• Arts for Lawrence
• Oct. 1 – 10
• boxoffice@artsforlawrence.org

Grand Encounters

• American Pianist Association
• Oct. 3
• americanpianists.org

Musical Mastery of Choir & Organ

• Indianapolis Symphonic Choir
• Oct. 2
• Indychoir.org

For more from Tom visit, TomAlvarez.studio and follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.