Marsha Norman’s musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple,” with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray, is being thoughtfully staged by Chromolume at the Zephyr Theatre through March 29. Veronica Driscoll (Celie) and Minque Taylor (Shug Avery) in Chromolume's "The Color Purple" at Zephyr Theatre (Photo by James Esposito) Set in the rural American South in the early 1900s, the story follows Celie (Veronica Driscoll), a dark-skinn

Rick Simone-Friedland (Tennessee Williams) in "Kind Stranger" at Zephyr Theatre (Photo by Steven Simone Friedland) Conceived and performed by Rick Simone-Friedland and adapted and directed by Steven Simone-Friedland, “Kind Stranger” is a one-man memory play built entirely from playwright Tennessee Williams’ 1975 autobiography “Memoirs.” Set in New Orleans in the early 1970s, the piece moves through the highs and lows of Williams’ later years — the work, the fame that still li