To celebrate 20 years of COCA summer musicals, we are welcoming back COCA Alumni from past summer musicals to join our current students in a production of The Color Purple you won’t want to miss!
This musical adaptation of The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the popular 1985 Steven Spielberg film, spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of 40 years forms the arc of this epic story.
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2006 | Best Musical | |
2016 | Best Revival of a Musical | Winner |
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA is at 6880 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO.
Kaleidoscope Crown (4/11/25-4/13/25)
SIX: TEEN EDITION (8/2/24-8/3/24)
MOTheR (5/12/24-5/12/24)
TRIUMPHANT (5/9/24-5/11/24)
Pippin (7/21/23-7/22/23)
TRIumphant (5/5/23-5/7/23)
The Little Dancer: Moments in Time (12/8/22-12/11/22)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (7/24/25-7/27/25)
Hadestown: Teen Edition (7/25/25-7/27/25)
Videos
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA (7/24 - 7/27) | |
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Mr Blue Sky A Tributes to Electric Light Orchestra
Chesterfield Amphitheatre (8/1 - 8/1) | |
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Salome
Union Avenue Opera (8/15 - 8/23) | |
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
STAGES St. Louis at the Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (9/19 - 10/19) | |
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A Hard Day's Night of the Living Dead (Beatles vs. Zombies)
Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center (7/24 - 7/24) | |
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Don't Let Your Boyfriend Keep You from Your Husband
Westport Playhouse (8/30 - 8/30)
PHOTOS
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Hadestown: Teen Edition
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA (7/25 - 7/27) | |
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