Diana Wortham
Theatre is delighted to announce an addition to its Mainstage Season: Emmy
award-winning actor and singer-songwriter Jeff Daniels performs with his son’s
band, the Ben Daniels Band, Saturday January 24, 2015 at 8:00 p.m at Diana
Wortham Theatre.
Jeff Daniels
brought the house down when he last appeared at DWT in 2010, and now returns to
Asheville right on the heels of the beginning of this third and final season of
HBO’s The Newsroom, for which he
received the Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy Award in 2013, and the highly
anticipated release this November of the buddy comedy film sequel, Dumb
and Dumber To. “Many film
actors have worked in TV, and many dabble in the theater,” mused The
Detroit News in a review. “But Jeff Daniels is one of
only a handful who can count a respectable musical career alongside acclaimed
work on film, TV and stage.”
A talented
musician and vocalist, Daniels has been writing songs for more than 30 years,
having performed with the likes of Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Keb
Mo’. For his next tour, Daniels is joined by his son Ben’s accomplished band,
known for its originality, musicianship, and a sound that spans Americana,
Blues, Jazz, and Rock.
Daniels has spent
the past twelve years playing venues across the country and has released five
albums to date. His albums Live and Unplugged, Grandfather’s Hat, and most recently Keep It Right
Here (featuring Brad Phillips &
Dominic John Davis) showcase Daniels’ range
as a songwriter, from the laugh-out-loud humor of “Have a Good Life (Then
Die),” to the self-deprecating tongue-in-cheek of “If William Shatner Can, I
Can Too,” to the quiet and poignant lyrics of “Middle of the Night.” On playing
with his son, Daniels shares, “I love writing
songs, I love entertaining people, and I love putting on a show. Happy to say,
the show just got better.”
In addition to earning the Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy Award in 2013 for his role as
news anchor Will McAvoy in HBO’s The Newsroom, Jeff Daniels has received Golden Globe, Screen
Actors Guild, Satellite, and Independent Spirits Awards nominations throughout
his long film career. Most notably, he is known for his roles in the movies Terms of
Endearment, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Squid and the Whale, Speed, Gettysburg, Because of Winn-Dixie, Blood Work, and Dumb and Dumber. Daniels has also worked
extensively on television and stage, where he first distinguished himself by
winning an Obie Award in Johnny Got His Gun, and was most
recently nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in the hit Broadway play God of Carnage with fellow actors James Gandolfini, Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden.
A discounted
ticket pre-sale for the theatre’s donor association, Friends of the Diana
Wortham Theatre, runs through Tuesday, November 4 via the DWT box office, and
general sales to the public begin November 5 through the box office and online
at www.dwtheatre.com.
The Mainstage Series is supported by a grant
from the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency. The Mainstage Series
2014/2015 Season Sponsors are the Asheville
Scene, Blue Moon Water, Creative Energy, Laurey’s Catering and
Gourmet-to-go, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Renaissance Asheville
Hotel. To obtain more information on the Mainstage
Series or to purchase tickets, call the theatre’s box office at (828) 257-4530
or visit www.dwtheatre.com.
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