On Tuesday, May 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the downtown library's multi-purpose room, the Purple Rose Theatre Company will present a concert reading of Jeff Daniels’ new play, "The Meaning of Almost Everything," which is scheduled for its world premiere at the Purple Rose during the 2012-2013 ...
June 24 marks the debut of a new Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing") television drama on HBO, "The Newsroom," starring Chelsea native and Purple Rose Theatre Co. founder/executive director Jeff Daniels. A first glimpse of the show recently surfaced online. In the show, Daniels plays a news anchorman who, after ...
Just in time for deer season, the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea is reviving “Escanaba in da Moonlight,” Jeff Daniels’ popular comedy about buck hunting in the Upper Peninsula. The production, which kicks off the 2011/12 season, will run Sept. 22-Dec. 17. Guy Sanville, the theater’s artistic director and by ...
The New York Times reports that cable TV network HBO has picked up a new series created by Aaron Sorkin, the writer/producer of "The West Wing" and "The Social Network" fame. Set at a cable news network, the series will star Jeff Daniels, the Chelsea-area resident known variously as a ...
The return of "Escanaba in Da Moonlight," the popular comedy written by Jeff Daniels that spawned two prequels and a movie, leads off next seaon's lineup at the Purple Rose Theatre Co. in Chelsea. Set in an Upper Peninsula deer camp, "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" tells the tale of an ...
Jeff Daniels Chelsea-area resident Jeff Daniels will play the lead role in a new series pilot Aaron Sorkin is developing for HBO, according to New York Magazine — confirming a possibility first noted by The Hollywood Reporter. The show, tentatively called "More As The Story Develops," is set behind the ...
“Make no mistake, make it perfectly clear, to get where we’re going, we gotta keep it right here.” - From Jeff Daniels’ fifth CD, "Keep It Right Here" Actor/Musician Jeff Daniels could have written that line in support of preserving Michigan’s generous film incentive program, but he didn’t. I interviewed ...
Last night saw a Valentine's Day-themed episode of "Glee" featuring a prominent story line for recent University of Michigan graduate Darren Criss as Blaine. Criss, who's become a real sensation, had two musical showcases in the episode. This promo has a brief sample:
On Sunday, February 13, hosts Wendy and Bill Holmes, and Mary and Ken Weber, along with special guest Jeff Daniels, invite you to a Valentine’s party tied up in red ribbon for romantics, dreamers, and rug-cutters alike, which will include: theatre reservations, cocktails, dinner, great music, celebrities, and dancing. You ...
The Purple Rose Theatre Company will present Jeff Daniels’ "Onstage & Unplugged" for a limited 10-show engagement, from Tuesday, December 21 through Friday, December 31. All performances will happen at the theater, located at 137 Park Street in Chelsea.
If there’s one thing you can count on at Jeff Daniels’ now-annual Thanksgiving weekend show at the Michigan Theater, it’s that you never know what kind of musical surprises he has in store. Case in point: Besides being impressed by the talent that was officially on the bill (more on ...
Jeff Daniels has been spending a lot of time lately on the road, but the Chelsea-based actor and playwright isn’t making a movie. Daniels has been living the life of a touring singer-songwriter. “We’re having a great time. Kathleen’s with me,” he said, referring to his wife, “and two dogs. ...
Several years ago, after a four year stint in grad school, my girlfriends and I tearfully parted ways, and I moved back to Michigan (and my long-suffering boyfriend) and wondered, “So, how do adults in ‘the real world’ develop friendships? How do they meet each other? How do they grow ...
While spending the better part of a year and a half starring in Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning Broadway hit “God of Carnage” — about two couples who come to blows while discussing an altercation between their sons — Chelsea-based actor/playwright Jeff Daniels found the seed for his newest play, “Best ...
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