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.
| Year | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Best Musical | |
| 2016 | Best Revival of a Musical | Winner |
Catherine B. Berges Theatre at COCA is at 6880 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO.
Hadestown: Teen Edition (7/25/25-7/27/25)
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (7/24/25-7/27/25)
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)
Illuminated Echoes (12/12/25-12/14/25)
Team M (5/15/26-5/16/26)
The Little Mermaid (7/17/26-7/26/26)
The Addams Family (8/7/26-8/8/26)
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Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
New Jewish Theatre (NJT) (11/20 - 12/7) | |
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Emma
The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis (12/3 - 12/21) | |
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We Will Rock You
Marcelle Theater (6/4 - 6/27) | |
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The Endless Forest Nutcracker On December 20, 2025
Westminster Christian Academy (12/20 - 12/20) | |
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Terms of Endearment
Clayton Community Theatre (7/23 - 8/2) | |
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The Ugly Duckling
The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis (3/28 - 3/28) | |
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The Wizard of Oz
Gateway Center for Performing Arts (12/18 - 12/21) | |
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The Sleeping Beauty: International Ballet Stars in Columbia, MO!
Jesse Hall Auditorium (3/21 - 3/21) | |
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She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurers Edition
COCA - Catherine B. Berges Theatre (4/10 - 4/11) | |
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