Purple Rose Kicks Off 5-Stop, 25th Anniversary Script Preview Tour Today

The Purple Rose Theatre Company is proud to announce its 25th Anniversary Script Preview Tour, coming to a venue near you in the Summer of 2015!

The tour is a 5-stop live concert reading from 5 classic and world-premiere plays to be staged in the theatre's 25th Anniversary season. Partnering with such cultural venues as The Detroit Institute of Arts & Detroit Film Theatre, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Chelsea Community Schools & The Chelsea District Library, Cleary University & The Arthur Secunda Museum, and Riverwalk Theatre, the Purple Rose will engage existing patrons, loyal donors, and a significant new audience through this FREE program by world-class professionals.

The main objectives of the 25th Anniversary Script Preview Tour are to highlight Chelsea's arts & culture partnership model for original script development, raise a level of awareness of the leading impact & contribution the Purple Rose has on the American stage, inspire young leaders by giving our younger audience the tools to fully connect and engage with the Purple Rose and program partners, stimulate a more demographically & geographically diverse audience to embrace the material the Purple Rose will launch in it's upcoming season, and to build strong alliances and help promote other community organizations who support the arts and the PRTC mission.

The tour's live concert reading format will not only tickle your funny-bone, warm your heart, and take you on a thrill ride with snippets from 2AZ by Michael Brian Ogden, The Casting Session by Jeff Daniels, The Odd Couple by Neil Simon, Gaps in the Fossil Record by Matt Letscher, and Mornings At Seven by Paul Osborn, but accurately reflect on the PRTC's historical achievements and impact on excellence, gender equality, new play development, and answer the question, "What do the next 25 years hold?"

Call 734.433.7782 to reserve your FREE seat.

5-Stop Tour Dates:

- Chelsea High School (Chelsea, MI): Tuesday, June 23 @ 7pm TONIGHT

- Riverwalk Theatre (Lansing, MI): Sunday, June 28 @ 7pm

- Cleary University's Johnson Center (Howell, MI): Tuesday, June 30 @ 7pm

- Cranbrook Institute of Science (Bloomfield Hills, MI): Sunday, July 19 @ 7pm

- DIA/Detroit Film Theatre (Detroit, MI): Friday, August 21 @ 7pm

Founded in 1991 by actor and Chelsea native, Jeff Daniels, The Purple Rose Theatre Company (PRTC) is the home of world-class, original American theatre. The PRTC is a professional theatre company with roots in the Midwest that takes a handcrafted, artisanal approach to producing new and classic American plays that are nothing less than one-of-a-kind experiences. The PRTC is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional theatre operating under a Small Professional Theatre agreement with the Actors' Equity Association.

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