Daniel Goldstein Will Adapt FAMILY TIES for the Stage; Gets Dayton Premiere in 2017

Leading theater Production Company The Araca Group today announced plans to bring the classic television series Family Ties to the stage, to be adapted by playwright and recent Kleban Award winner Daniel Goldstein.

The stage version of Family Ties will be produced under license from CBS Consumer Products and is slated to premiere in June 2017 at The Human Race Theatre in Dayton, in homage to the series' original Ohio setting.

"We are thrilled to be premiering Family Ties in the home state of the Keaton family," said Michael Barra, President, Media & Entertainment at The Araca Group. "Family Ties is a timeless comedy featuring a close-knit American family with vastly differing interests and politics, which very much resonates in America today. And Danny is the ideal collaborator to bring these beloved characters and their stories to the stage. We are excited to develop new titles for markets beyond Broadway and the West End, and delighted that another production is coming to fruition."

The adaptation will be a non-musical play and will draw from the entire series arc of the original program. After its premiere, the play will be published and made available for productions around the world.

"The Human Race is honored to be selected and thrilled to be producing this world premiere, especially in our 30th anniversary season," said the company's President and Artistic Director Kevin Moore. "It sums up what our 30 years have always been about - telling great stories about family, about life - sharing those moments that reveal our humanity. That is great theatre."

Performances will begin on June 1, 2017 and will run through June 25, 2017. Priority seating will be provided to The Human Race Theatre's Season Subscribers and single tickets will go on sale in January 2017. Casting will be announced in the future.

Daniel Goldstein (playwright) is a writer and director based in Brooklyn. He is the winner of the 2016 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Musical Theater Librettist. His musical UNKNOWN SOLDIER (written with Michael Friedman) played a sold-out run at Williamstown Theater Festival during the summer 2015 season. It received development at MTC, The National Musical Theater Conference at The O'Neill Theater Center, McCarter Theater and The Huntington Theater Company, which originally commissioned the piece as the inaugural Stanford Calderwood Commission for New American Plays. He received (with Dawn Landes) a Public Theater/Joe's Pub New York Voices Commission for ROW, a musical based on A PEARL IN THE STORM, Tori Murden McClure's memoir about becoming the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. ROW has been developed at The Orchard Project and Tofte Lake Center. Upcoming work includes an immersive adaptation ofHANSEL AND GRETEL at ARTPARK in Buffalo, New York, this summer and a Halloween Harry Potter Death Eater Experience at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. As a director, his work has been seen on and off-Broadway, around the US and internationally. He recently completed his first short film, NO SHE WASN'T, written by Ethan Sandler and starring Katie Lowes. He is a graduate of Northwestern University with a B.S. in Performance Studies. www.danielgoldsteincreative.com

The Araca Group was founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, and the company has since become a leading Broadway production and brand management company with over 250 dedicated employees and offices in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, and Sydney.

Araca's producing ventures have garnered Tony, Pulitzer, Grammy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League, Olivier and Obie Awards. Broadway producing credits include Wicked, Urinetown, Disgraced, The Wedding Singer, A View From The Bridge, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lend Me a Tenor, Match, Rock of Ages, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, 'Night Mother, Skylight, A Raisin in the Sun, and Boeing-Boeing. Araca's recently launched Media & Entertainment division partners with marquee Media Companies and Consumer Brands to develop and manage branded entertainment portfolios of meticulously crafted adaptations, reboots, and brand integrations of some of the world's most iconic intellectual property, for film, television, digital and live stage.

The Human Race Theatre Company is Dayton, Ohio's premier regional professional theatre company, exploring the human experience and promoting enlightenment, inclusion, and understanding through quality entertainment. By focusing on award-winning, cutting edge dramas and comedies, American classics, regional and world premieres, and the development of new plays and musicals-and by uniting artists from across the country with artists resident to the region-we enjoy a growing reputation and national recognition for excellence in theatre. We are at home in both the intimate setting of The Loft Theatre, and on a larger scale at the historic Victoria Theatre. Our youth education and community engagement programs reach thousands every year. Our Resident Artists have been inducted into the Dayton Theatre Hall of Fame and recognized with the Governor's Award for the Arts.

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