Brooklyn Boy's Adam Arkin Featured on NY-1's OnStage This Weekend

Adam Arkin, currently starring in Manhattan Theatre Club's Brooklyn Boy, will be featured on NY-1's "OnStage" this weekend, beginning March 5th. "On Stage" airs Saturdays and Sundays from 9:30-10:00 AM and from 7:30-8:00 PM, as well as Mondays from 9:30-10:00 PM and 12:30-1:00 AM.

Adam Arkin (Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, The West Wing) heads the cast of Brooklyn Boy, a marvelously rich, wonderfully funny and deeply moving new work about a novelist who's finally hit the big time, with a bestselling book primed for a Hollywood adaptation. But when his father's health brings him back to the Brooklyn of his childhood, he is forced to reconcile the boy he was with the successful man he has become.

Director Daniel Sullivan's sensational cast also includes Polly Draper (Four Dogs and a Bone at MTC, thirtysomething), Ari Graynor (Mystic River), Ayre Gross (Minority Report, Ellen), Kevin Isola (Everett Beekin at Lincoln Center Theater), Mimi Lieber (I'm Not Rappaport) and Allan Miller (Knot's Landing).

Adam Arkin (Eric Weiss) was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Dr. Aaron Shutt on "Chicago Hope," in which he starred for six seasons. He also received Emmy nominations for his roles on "Northern Exposure" and "Frasier". Recently, he has been seen in recurring roles on "The West Wing" and "Eight Simple Rules". On stage, Adam received a Tony nomination for his role in the Paul Rudnick comedy, I Hate Hamlet and also starred on Broadway as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Off-Broadway roles include The Extra Man, Sight Unseen and Four Dogs and a Bone at Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as the premiere Encores! production of Fiorello! Film credits include Hanging Up, The Doctor with William Hurt and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway with Robert Duvall, both for director Randa Haines, as well as Halloween H2O, With Friends Like These, Lake Placid, Under the Rainbow and the upcoming romantic comedy, The Last First Kiss, starring Will Smith and due out in February, 2005. Arkin has directed episodes of "Chicago Hope," "Northern Exposure," "Ally McBeal" and "Monk". Recently, he won an Emmy Award for directing My Louisiana Sky, a Showtime film starring Julliette Lewis and Kelsey Keel.

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Tickets ($79 - $26) for Brooklyn Boy are available by calling TeleCharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at www.telecharge.com or at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street).