Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Messing turned down a starring role in another television sitcom to appear in Donald Margulies 's two-character play Collected Stories , which opened at the Off Broadway Manhattan Theater Club .
Simplified: Messing turned down a starring role in another television sitcom so she could appear in Donald Margulies 's two-character play Collected Stories . The play opened at the Off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club .