Rowan Gilstrap sings and dances in the rain on stage during a Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, dress rehearsal for “Singin’ in the ...

More than 2,000 Prince fans, followers and theatergoers waited in lines that stretched around the block Thursday night to catch the first-ever public performance of the “Purple Rain” musical at the ...

The Purple Rain musical is set for its pre-Broadway debut in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis. The cast and crew of the inaugural Purple Rain musical are ready for its Oct. 16 premiere in Prince’s ...

"Purple Rain" has finally arrived for its pre-Broadway run at the State Theatre. Prince’s Oscar- and Grammy-winning movie and album is now a musical, launching on a stage just blocks from the movie’s ...

LENOX — It was a dark and stormy night when, hoping to come back from a rain-dampened 2006 season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra opened their 2007 Tanglewood season last night. And while it may have ...

James Taylor is the latest music legend to have his work adapted for the stage. The upcoming musical Fire & Rain will be ...

ST. PAUL — The world premiere of the new musical based on Prince’s breakthrough film and album “Purple Rain” has been pushed back to the fall of 2025 to “allow for more time for creative development.” ...

The world premiere musical adaptation, PURPLE RAIN, brings to life the journey of The Kid, a talented but troubled young musician trying to make it in the Minneapolis club scene. As he contends with a ...

"The Notebook" was first a popular novel. Then it was transformed into a hit romance movie. Now, for the first time, the popular tale is coming to life on stage as a musical version of the story comes ...

The music of Prince is headed to the stage, not in concert form but in a musical. The film “Purple Rain” is having a Broadway-style adaptation, and the leads for the show have been announced before ...

Additional creative team members and performance dates have been revealed for the pre-Broadway world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s legendary film and album, PURPLE RAIN. The production will ...

For Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the playwright who wrote the book for the musical version of “Purple Rain,” theater is a place of solitude. “I like to think of the theater as a gym for the emotions,” he ...