In 2005 Alice Walker's pulitzer prize winning novel, The Color Purple, was adapted for the stage as a broadway musical. Listen to a musical medley from the 2016 tony award winning revival cast.
In U.S. dramas, African-Americans are often limited to portraying impoverished characters, like slaves or street thugs. So Lydia Diamond wrote a play about the opposite: An extremely wealthy black family vacationing on Martha's Vineyard.
