Articles Tagged With: Kaiyla Gross

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The Color Purple at Signature Theatre

It is a joyful noise unlike any other. Signature Theatre’s production of The Color Purple will take you to church— in the most inspiring, healing, and joyous fashion possible. Directed Timothy Douglas, with Musical Direction by Mark G. Meadows, and Choreography by Dane Figueroa Edidi, this rapturous production is stellar beyond compare and leaves the heart bursting with indescribably hope.

It’s a humble set and yet the vivid life that spring forth both from behind the slatted wooden shutters and on the planks itself are worth exalting to the heavens.

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Unveiling What’s Inside: An Interview with Kaiyla Gross on The Color Purple at Signature Theatre

“It take a grain of love to make a mighty tree. Even the smallest voice can make a harmony.” ~ “The Color Purple” from the musical of the same title, soon to be opening the 2022-2023 season at Signature Theatre. A powerful show, with book by Marsha Norman, and music & lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation, this striking musical has the potential to be a dynamite way to open Signature’s new season.

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Rent at Signature Theatre. Photo: Christopher Mueller

Rent at Signature Theatre

In daylights. In sunsets. In midnights. In cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. 525,600 minutes— how do you measure— a year in life? For Signature Theatre and the rest of the world, for whom its been longer than 525,600 minutes since live theatre has occurred with in-person audiences on their stages, you celebrate with a production of Jonathan Larson’s incomparable musical, Rent. Directed by Matthew Gardiner, with Musical Direction by Mark.

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