An Evening with Jeff Daniels - General Admission Tickets $40

Jeff Daniels

Actor Jeff Daniels, veteran of over fifty Hollywood films ranging from “The Purple Rose of Cairo” to “Dumb and Dumber,” has been writing songs for over thirty years. Daniels notes, “I don’t write hits. I don’t send out demos to famous singers. I just write songs. They’re my diaries… If you really wanted to get to know me, you’d find me in there.” For his Birdland debut, Daniels will perform these and other selections from his stage repertoire.

JUST ANNOUNCED 8/28/25

Actor and musician Jeff Daniels comes to Maine this fall and we are thrilled to welcome this man of many talents to our stage on October 17.

Here’s how Jeff describes himself…”Well, mostly I act and whatever I did must have worked because I’m doing it more now than in any decade of my career which is not how they draw it up in Star School. In 1976, I drove to New York City to learn everything I didn’t know, achieving just enough success along the way to inch my way up the Serious Actor Ladder. As my career marched on, I appeared in over seventy films, numerous television shows, returned again and again to the theatre, and am currently riding a string of once in a lifetime roles in NEWSROOM, GODLESS, LOOMING TOWER, THE COMEY RULE and a year long run on Broadway as Atticus Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Much as I love acting, however, I don’t do it every day. The only thing I do every day, the only thing I want to do, the only thing I have to do, is play my acoustic guitar. Back in ’76, I bought a Guild D-40, tossed it into the backseat of a beat up Buick and chased a dream. I had no idea I was bringing along my best friend. The one I would need, the one I would turn to, the one I would rely on. And now, decades later, the one who knows what I’m all about. Sometimes I’m asked if I’ll ever write a book and I always answer that I already have. It’s in my songs. —- Jeff Daniels

Come hear his songs tonight. Advance discount tickets $35, available only from the box office at 207-633-5159 (open Wed – Fri from 10-2). Regular tickets $40 online at boothbayoperahouse.com, and on the day of show if available.