Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Kris Kollins will make his professional stage debut in the same role that made Prince a ...

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

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

Casting director Taylor Williams discovered Kollins on social media as part of a nationwide search. The Washington D.C.-based ...

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

Creators of the stage version of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ named newcomer Kris Kollins as the star in August 2025.

The film “Purple Rain” is having a Broadway-style adaptation, and the leads for the show have been announced before its ...

We soon expect to hear who will play the Kid, the lead role in the stage adaptation of Prince’s movie “Purple Rain” that will ...

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 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 ...

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 ‘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 ...