Overview

• Kris Kollins—discovered through a nationwide social-media search—will make his professional stage debut as The Kid opposite & Juliet alum Rachel Webb as Apollonia.
• Purple Rain will play at Hennepin Arts’ State Theatre in Minneapolis from October 16 to November 16, 2025, marking its world-premiere pre-Broadway engagement.
• Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins penned the book for the stage adaptation, which is directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz with choreography by Ebony Williams.
• Jason Michael Webb oversees music supervision while longtime Prince collaborators Bobby Z and Morris Hayes serve as music advisers alongside a newly announced full design team.
• A first-look rehearsal video of Kollins and Webb performing “Take Me With U” has been released, and producers have not yet announced a Broadway transfer timeline.