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Frenchie Davis wows as Sofia in ‘The Color Purple’

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‘The Color Purple’Through Oct. 9Signature Theatre4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, VA$70-$108Sigtheatre.org D.C.

likes to claim singer Frenchie Davis as its own. And now we can, again. Davis has returned to the DMV to head the theater arts program at a new charter school as well as wow audiences in Signature Theatre’s production of “The Color Purple” directed by Timothy Douglas.

Adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, coming-of-age novel about Celie (Nova Y. Payton), a victimized teen in deep Jim Crow South who through grit and courage grows up to find redemption.

Davis plays Celie’s sometime champion, ballsy Sofia, a Black woman loath to buckle under (a part memorably portrayed by Oprah Winfrey on the screen).  “I grew up in California but was born in D.C.

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