Prince's Purple Rain Gets Stage Adaptation from Lileana Blain-Cruz and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Purple Rain, Prince's 1984 musical film, is being adapted for the stage with production details to be announced in the coming months. Based on the original screenplay by William Blinn and Albert Magnoli, who also directed the movie, the stage project will be directed by Tony nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz (The Skin of Our Teeth) with a book by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose play Appropriat…