Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Timothy Eric in 'The Bluest Eye' at the Ensemble Theatre (Everett Welch) Pecola is an African American young girl whose own mother ...

When I heard that The Providence Black Repertory Company (The Black Rep) would be presenting an adaptation of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, my first inclination was to get my hands on a copy and ...

Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. This essay is adapted from On Morrison (Hogarth). Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest Eye is about: a little black girl ...

The unflinching wisdom of Toni Morrison lends not only purpose but propulsion to the stage adaptation of her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” now at Pasadena’s A Noise Within through Sept. 24. Morrison ...

Nominated by Evy in Minnetonka, Minn. The delicate, distant protagonist of Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye an 11-year-old mocked for her dark skin, a girl who dreams of trading her brown eyes for ...

For most of us, growing up in what has come to be called the predominant American culture, life was pretty much as it was presented in our reading books – Dick and Jane, Mom and Dad, Spot and Puff, ...

THE BLUEST EYE is Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winner Toni Morrison’s first novel, written in 1970 and adapted for the stage by playwright Lydia Diamond in 2005. Centering on young Pecola Breedlove, whose ...

In the musical Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim reminds us that “Children will listen.” Novelist Toni Morrison agrees. In her harrowing novel THE BLUEST EYE, she reveals how good kids are at soaking ...

Lydia R. Diamond took on a complex challenge when she set out to adapt Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” for the stage nearly two decades ago. How to convey the surging lyricism of Morrison’s prose in ...

Pecola is an African American young girl whose own mother thought she was “aggressively ugly” from the day she was born. But it is not just her internal family dynamic that makes her want to change ...