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The Purple Rose Theatre's January-March 2026 production was 'The Classic King,' a world-premiere comedy written and directed by Jeff Daniels; spring 2026 brings 'Murder on the Links.'
By summer 2025 the Purple Rose Theatre had produced 124 plays, including 75 world premieres.
The Purple Rose Theatre's building at 137 Park Street was Jeff Daniels' grandfather's car garage, renovated for the theater in 1989 and expanded via a $2.2 million capital campaign in 1999.
Chelsea, where Jeff Daniels is based, is in Washtenaw County, about 15 miles west of Ann Arbor.
Jeff Daniels founded the nonprofit Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea in 1991, naming it after the 1985 Woody Allen film The Purple Rose of Cairo in which he starred.
The Purple Rose Theatre operates under an Actors' Equity Association agreement and has received honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, and the American Theatre Critics Association.