Award-Winning ‘The Color Purple,’ Continues Through March 3 at Red Mountain Theater

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson | The Birmingham Times Directing The Tony award-winning stage play “The Color Purple” is an honor for the multi-talented Monet who joins an elite company of few Black women who’ve had the opportunity to direct a musical of this magnitude. The musical, which runs through Sunday, March 3 at Birmingham’s Red Mountain Theatre, will be highlighted with singing performances featuring notes of jazz, gospel, ragtime and blues. Theatergoers can save 25 percent on all price level tickets by using discount code: Times25, www.redmountaintheatre.org, 205-324-2424. Monet told The Birmingham Times she does not take lightly the opportunity to direct this critically acclaimed play. “Directing this production means a lot to me,” said Monet, a graduate of A.R.T/Harvard. “Not only is it so wonderful to be directing ‘The Color Purple’ in the South so close to the geographical areas that it is set in and references, but also to be able to do the show for a community that really understands these (characters) in a more intimate way. These characters are based on people that would resemble their grandmothers, their great grandmothers …” The play is based on Alice-Walker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning book of the same name, which follows the...