Purple Rain Broadway

STATE THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS
OCTOBER 16 – NOVEMBER 16, 2025

The world premiere stage adaptation of PRINCE’S legendary film and album PURPLE RAIN^™ comes to Hennepin Arts’ historic State Theatre October 16-November 16, 2025.

The world premiere musical adaptation, PURPLE RAIN, brings to life the electrifying, fictional journey of “The Kid,” a talented but troubled young musician trying to make it in the Minneapolis club scene. As he contends with a tumultuous home life, a rival band, and an unexpected romance with an aspiring young singer, “The Kid” fights to find his voice and seize his moment in the spotlight.

Based on the original screenplay by Albert Magnoli and William Blinn, this pre-Broadway debut is directed by Tony Award® nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz. It features a book by Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins with music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations by Tony Award winner Jason Michael Webb and choreography by Ebony Williams. Longtime Prince collaborators Bobby Z and Morris Hayes join the award-winning creative team as Prince Music Advisors.