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Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver to Star in Love Letters Benefit

Sigourney Weaver
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Sigourney Weaver
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver will star in a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters on Saturday, July 26 at the Detroit Film Theatre. The event is being presented by Dow Automotive and the Purple Rose Theatre, in collaboration with the Detroit Film Theatre and the Flea Theatre in New York.

First staged in 1989, Gurney’s two-character play chronicles the relationship of Makepeace Ladd II and Melissa Gardner from second grade through their 50s through the love letters they write each other.

Daniels is the founder and executive director of Purple Rose Theatre, and has written numerous plays for the company, including Shoe Man, Across the Way, and Escanaba in da Moonlight. He appeared in Blackbird at the Manhattan Theatre Club and will star in September in the Goodman Theatre’s world premiere of Turn of the Century. His many film credits include Dumb and Dumber, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, and Terms of Endearment.

Weaver has starred on stage in Gurney’s Crazy Mary and Mrs. Farnsworth. Her Broadway credits include Hurlyburly, for which she received a Tony Award nomination, Gemini, and Sex and Longing. She is a three-time Academy Award nominee for Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist, and Working Girl.

Tickets range from $25-$10,000. For information, call 734-433-7633 or visit www.purplerosetheatre.org.

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Closed: July 26, 2008