user: Problem: For Manhattan Theater Club, Edie Falco Will Star in Play By 'Nurse Jackie' Writer

Edie Falco — the tart-tongued, pill-popping title character of the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” — will star in the world premiere of “The Madrid,” a new play by Liz Flahive, who is also a staff writer on the series.

“The Madrid” is one of three plays Manhattan Theater Club announced on Wednesday as part of its 2012-13 season. Ms. Falco will play a kindergarten teacher who deserts her family in the Off Broadway production, which opens February 26, 2013 at MTC’s City Center Stage I. Leigh Silverman, who directed Ms. Flahive’s earlier “From Up Here” for MTC, will direct the new play as well.

The theater’s Off Broadway season will also include Terrence McNally’s “Golden Age,” which depicts the opening night of a Bellini opera in 1835 Paris. Walter Bobbie (“Venus in Fur”) will direct the play, which is slated to open at City Center Stage I on Dec. 4.

The theater’s Broadway season will open September 27 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater with the U.S. premiere of a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” by British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Directed by Doug Hughes (“Doubt,” “The Whipping Man”), the drama about free speech and intolerance will star four-time Tony winner Boyd Gaines, currently in MTC’s “The Columnist,” along with Richard Thomas (“Race”).

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Summary: Theater's season also includes new version of "An Enemy of the People" and an opera-themed play by Terrence McNally.


Michael Jace Arrested For Fatal Shooting Of Wife

Michael Jace, an actor who played a police officer in FX’s The Shield, was arrested by real members of the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday for the fatal shooting of his wife.

A local CBS affiliate on the scene in Hyde Park reported that neighbors called the police at 8:30pm Monday upon hearing shouting and gunshots coming from Jace’s home. Police found April Jace, 40, dead inside and then took her husband of 9 years in for questioning.

After being detained Monday, Jace, 51, was booked on a homicide charge.

Jace, who played Officer Julien Lowe on the FX show, was also known for a guest appearance in Southland, another show about the L.A. police, and played law enforcement officers in CSI, The Mentalist, Burn Notice, Private Practice, and NYPD Blue. He also had a small part as a black panther in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump.

summary: Michael Jace, who played Officer Julien Lowe on the FX show, was arrested Tuesday on homicide charges


Input: Roland Burris May Join Chicago Mayor's Race
CHICAGO – There may be an unlikely addition to the long list of people who wish to replace Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has ruled this city for two decades. Supporters of Roland W. Burris, who is packing up his United States Senate office this week to come home to Chicago, have filed the necessary paperwork for him to seek the city’s top job.

Twenty possible candidates – including Rahm Emanuel, the former White House chief of staff – filed petitions by Monday evening, the deadline for entering the Feb. 22 election. But the field of candidates will probably shrink. In the coming days, election officials here will determine whether the candidates have met filing requirements (they each need 12,500 legitimate signatures) and will hear challenges – among them, one expected this week over Mr. Emanuel’s status as a resident of the city.

Mr. Burris, who was appointed to finish the Senate term of President Obama, was approached this fall, his aides say, by supporters who collected 20,000 signatures on his behalf. Mr. Burris, who is already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for legal fees related to his Senate appointment, has yet to decide whether he will run for mayor, aides said.

At the end of 2008, Rod R. Blagojevich, then the governor of Illinois, appointed Mr. Burris to fill the remainder of Mr. Obama’s Senate term – a decision that drew a firestorm of criticism since Mr. Blagojevich had already been arrested and accused of trying to sell the appointment. (Mr. Blagojevich was convicted of one felony count in the case this year, and is to be retried on other counts next year.)

Mr. Burris, a Democrat who has been seen by some here as a leader from an earlier political era in Illinois, chose not to run for a full term in the Senate. Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican, beat Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, this month in the race for the Senate seat, and is to start the job next week (earlier than most because of a court fight over what was left of Mr. Obama’s Senate term).

Among the other major candidates who filed petitions to run for mayor: Carol Moseley Braun, the former United States senator; the Rev. James T. Meeks, leader of a major Baptist church on the city’s South Side; Gery J. Chico, once a chief of staff to Mr. Daley; Miguel del Valle, the city clerk; and Danny K. Davis, a longtime congressman.

Rob Halpin, a businessman who is significantly less known to the public, also filed petitions. Mr. Halpin has drawn attention for his address more than anything else. He rented the North Side home owned by Mr. Emanuel, and declined to give it up when Mr. Emanuel decided this fall to leave Washington and return to Chicago to run for mayor.

Mr. Halpin says that his mayoral bid has nothing at all to do with his housing situation, Mr. Emanuel or Mr. Emanuel’s wish to be mayor. Still, Mr. Halpin’s entry into the race underscores the legal challenge that is expected to be filed on Wednesday against Mr. Emanuel’s candidacy.

Burt Odelson, a lawyer who has worked on election cases (including on behalf of Republicans in the 2000 presidential recount in Florida), says he will represent three residents of Chicago (for now unnamed) in a challenge to Mr. Emanuel’s candidacy. Mr. Odelson said Tuesday that he intended to show that Mr. Emanuel was not a resident of Chicago for a year before the election, as required, but has been living in Washington for much of that time. “It really is very simple,” Mr. Odelson said.

Advocates for Mr. Emanuel, meanwhile, say state statute deems that he not lose his legal residency in Chicago merely because he was doing the business of the federal government. They note that Mr. Emanuel has owned a house in the city since 1998, pays property taxes here, has a car registered here and votes here. Asked about the issue along the campaign trail, Mr. Emanuel has reflected at times on his family’s deep roots in the city – including a grandfather who arrived here in 1917.

Hearings on the matter are expected within the next few weeks.
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assistant: Supporters of Roland W. Burris, who is packing up his Senate office this week, have filed the necessary paperwork for him to run for mayor.