Casting director Taylor Williams discovered newcomer Kris Kollins on social media as part of a nationwide search.

This fall's world premiere in Minneapolis of the stage musical Purple Rain will star an up-and-coming musician-songwriter ...

Watch Kollins and co-star Rachel Webb in a first-look rehearsal video, before the production begins its pre-Broadway run in ...

Purple Rain” has found its Prince. Singer-songwriter Kris Kollins, a Washington, D.C., native who now lives in Miami, has ...

Few know Prince’s Purple Rain was nearly a country duet with Stevie Nicks, but her surprising refusal made this song a solo.

In honor of its 40th anniversary, Prince’s “Purple Rain” will return to select theaters on July 3. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection But then there was the music, which was nothing ...

After Prince’s death, “Purple Rain” had a return run in movie theaters. In 2019, the film was added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry alongside 24 others for its ...

Prince's music is becoming a stage musical — eventually. Producer Orin Wolf announced Monday that he is developing a stage version of Purple Rain — the 1984, vaguely autobiographical film that ...

Prince and The Revolution’s soundtrack, “Purple Rain,” was released in June 1984. The album received two Grammys, three American Music Awards, two Brit Awards and an Academy Award for best ...

Since the Purple Rain album is only nine songs in length, the musical team has also been given permission to dig into Prince’s catalog to add other material to the show, likely from the same era.

Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ at 40: A kooky, funky ode to the magic of life "Purple Rain" has been essential and definitive since it debuted 40 years ago, and we're all just perpetually basking in ...

For the 1984-1985 tour, "Purple Rain" came at the end, its duration sometimes extended to almost 20 minutes. Prince performed it on most of his subsequent tours, but not always at the end.