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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Kris Kollins and Rachel Webb will star as the Kid and Apollonia, respectively, in the Minneapolis premiere of "Purple Rain" ...

But in 1984, Prince made movies work for him with Purple Rain, the story of The Kid, an extremely Prince-like musician trying to make it in Minneapolis fronting a band called The Revolution.

Prince Movie Classic 'Purple Rain' Becoming a Stage Musical Granted, musical careers, like nearly everything else, moved more gradually back then. But that’s also how Prince revealed himself.

Released to record stores on June 25, 1984, and arriving in theaters a little over a month later, 'Purple Rain' cemented Prince's status as one of the more talented artists in the business ...