Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The stage adaptation will be based on the original screenplay by Albert Magnoli and William Blinn, and will be written by two-time ...

On one hand, it felt like an average night at Minneapolis’ venerable rock club from over its past 40 years. The DJ spun a lot of Prince songs. Bartender Pete Rasmussen was working his upstairs post.

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 ...

In the semi-autobiographical musical, released on July 27, 1984, Prince played “the Kid,” a musician who performs at a local Minneapolis club with his band while trying to escape his abusive father.

Rachel Webb, as Apollonia, tends to save the show's more intimate scenes with empathy to spare. Credit: Matthew Murphy There were moments during “Purple Rain,” the musical adaptation of Prince’s ...