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Join CDL for a play reading and share your feedback. Enjoy the reading in-person at The Purple Rose (150-person limit) or watch from home or the library on Zoom!
Registration is required for both in-person and Zoom viewing. Doors open at the Purple Rose Theatre at 10am for general admission seating.
Join us for the 2026 Purple Rose Theatre Company New Works Comedy Fest! Enjoy scenes performed from several plays written by Michigan playwrights including a featured new work by Founder and Artistic Director Jeff Daniels! PRTC artists will perform readings of scenes and acts from various plays and give the audience an opportunity to share feedback with the actors and select playwrights*. Doors open at 10am, reading begins approximately 30 minutes after doors open. *While one of Jeff Daniels’ plays will be featured in the reading, Mr. Daniels will not be present at the event.
The readings will include (in no particular order):
LEGS by *Jeff Daniels
GLAMPING by *Carey Crim
I DONE IT by *Paul Stroili
THREE'S COWMPANY by Eric Pfeffinger
REQUIM FOR A DONUT LOVER by *David MacGregor
THE CADDIE by S. Duane
*(indicated Resident Playwright)
The Chelsea District Library is a single branch library serving the City of Chelsea and surrounding townships. The library has 4 small study rooms, one medium meeting room, and the McKune room, our main programming room.