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2019-2020 North American tour of The Color Purple playing at the Heymann Center

The show will take place on November 17, 2019
Posted at 3:54 PM, Sep 19, 2019
and last updated 2019-09-19 16:54:49-04

The 2019-2020 North American tour of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of The Color Purple will be visiting the Heymann Center on November 17, 2019.

Producers announced the national tour, which will include more than 30 cities, including Lafayette.

Tickets will be available starting this Friday, September 20, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.

Based on the Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the Warner Bros./Amblin Entertainment motion picture, The Color Purple is adapted for the stage by Tony- and Pulitzer-winner Marsha Norman with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray.

The Color Purple played 483 performances on Broadway, closing on January 8, 2017.

For more information, please visit LafayetteBroadway.com.