Jeff Daniels News

The Purple Rose Theatre Company is proud to present their 39th World Premiere to open the 20th anniversary season this fall: Best of Friends by Jeff Daniels. The production will enjoy a ten-week engagement from Thursday, October 14 through Saturday, December 18, 2010. Seven low-price previews of Best of Friends will be performed from Thursday, October 14, through Thursday, October 21, with Press Opening on Friday, October 22, 2010.

DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical, the hit musical by Jerry Mayer, starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens and Donald Corren, will conclude its Off-Broadway run Saturday, December 11th at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.)

Casting has been completed for the Broadway premiere of Rajiv Joseph's play BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO - set to begin previews March 11 and open March 31 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.), starring Robin Williams in his Broadway acting debut - it has been announced by the play's producers Robyn Goodman, Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Center Theatre Group.

DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical, the hit musical by Jerry Mayer, starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens and Donald Corren, will conclude its Off-Broadway run Saturday, December 11th at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.)

The Purple Rose Theatre Company will present Jeff Daniels' Onstage & Unplugged for a limited ten show engagement from Tuesday, December 21 through Friday, December 31, 2010.

DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical, the hit musical by Jerry Mayer, starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens and Donald Corren, will conclude its Off-Broadway run Sunday, December 26th at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Ave.) DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical began performances June 5th, with the opening night on June 20th.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) announce that two-time Emmy Award winner Andre Braugher will appear in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming New York premiere of the critically acclaimed historical drama THE WHIPPING MAN by Matthew Lopez, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes.

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the exhilarating new Kander & Ebb musical, opened Sunday, October 31 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and BroadwayWorld.com was there to caption the starry red carpet arrivals!

Moving into its 26th season, Shadowland Theatre follows its record-breaking 25th anniversary season with five new productions, including GUEST ARTIST, the comic drama written by actor Jeff Daniels and stars Academy Award nominee John Astin. The season begins June 4 and will run until October 3rd.

According to Deadline.com, Jeff Daniels is collaborating with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Timothy Busfield, for a new Showtime series entitled, Happily Ever After. Daniels has written the script for the series' pilot, and he will also star in the show as a factory worker turned musician. The potential pilot will be directed by Bushfield.

The 24th Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS $476,917, beating the 2009 total of $403,929. This year's top booths were WICKED, Broadway Beat, TDF, American Idiot, The Phantom of the Opera, United Scenic Artists Local 829, Maddie's Corner, Next to Normal, The Addams Family, Triton Gallery and Billy Elliot!

The Language Archive will begin previews on Friday, September 24th and open officially on Sunday, October 17th, 2010 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, December 19th, 2010.

Deadline.com exclusively reports this morning that Kate Winslet and Jodi Foster will star in the film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning play, God Of Carnage, to be directed by Roman Polanski. Inglorious Basterd's Christoph Waltz and Crash's Matt Dillion will play their spouses. Reza has adapted her original script for the screen alongside Polanski. Though the film is set in Brooklyn, New York, the 12-week filming will begin in Paris in February due to Polanski's legal troubles in the US.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company is proud to present their 39th World Premiere to open the 20th anniversary season this fall: Best of Friends by Jeff Daniels. The production will enjoy a ten-week engagement from Thursday, October 14 through Saturday, December 18, 2010. Seven low-price previews of Best of Friends will be performed from Thursday, October 14, through Thursday, October 21, with Press Opening on Friday, October 22, 2010.

Friday, September 17, Jeff Daniels will make his third visit to the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, WI where he will perform original blues inspired music to celebrate the re-opening of Wisconsin's oldest operating theatre.

The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival jump-starts Milwaukee's fall film festival season with a special advanced screening of the highly anticipated new film Howl, from acclaimed documentarians Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk) and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet).

Friday, September 17, Jeff Daniels will make his third visit to the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh, WI where he will perform original blues inspired music to celebrate the re-opening of Wisconsin's oldest operating theatre.

Moving into its 26th season, Shadowland Theatre follows its record-breaking 25th anniversary season with five new productions, including GUEST ARTIST, the comic drama written by actor Jeff Daniels and stars Academy Award nominee John Astin. The season begins June 4 and will run until October 3rd.

The Purple Rose Theatre Company is pleased to announce a two-week performance extension of the French farce Boeing-Boeing by Marc Camoletti. Originally scheduled to close on August 28, Boeing-Boeing will now run until Saturday, September 11, 2010.

Budget-conscious fans can take advantage of a buy one, get one FREE special on select seats to nearly 50 shows at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center during the one-day Fall Tip Top sale Friday, Sept. 10.