Shia LaBeouf Quits Broadway Staging of 'Orphan's' Due To 'Creative Differences' 'Transformers' Star Quits On Alec Baldwin A Month Before Curtain Opens [VIDEO]

Shia LaBeouf has quit the Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's "Orphans," due to "creative differences," the 26-year-old 'Transformers" star said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

LaBeouf's exit comes on the heels of "Orphans" previews slated to begin March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theater at 236 West 45th Street. Opening night is scheduled for April 7.

A Shia LaBeouf replacement has not been announced.

After rising to international fame in director Michael Bay's 2007 blockbuster "Transformers," LaBeouf starred in the long-awaited Spielberg sequel, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in 2008.

In 2009, LaBeouf starred in the sequel to his breakout film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

Yet Shia LaBeouf has implied he might call it quits with starring in action blockbusters, criticizing studio execs in the Hollywood Reporter last summer that "give you the money, then get on a plane and come to the set and stick a finger up your ass and chase you around for five months."

Last summer LaBeouf recently lambasted studios that "give you the money, then get on a plane and come to the set and stick a finger up your a - - and chase you around for five months.

Originally staged at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles in 1983, "Orphans" was made into a feature film starring Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson in 1987. Alan Pakula directed the film.

Al Pacino and Jesse Eisenberg performed the play in a workshop at the Greenway Court Theatre in L.A. in 2005.

In the Broadway version of "Orphans" that Shia LaBeouf just quit, Alec Baldwin stars as an influential man kidnapped by two brothers.

Baldwin fans are still reeling from allegations that the "30 Rock" actor called New York Post photographer and decorated retired detective G.N. Miller a "coon, a drug dealer,'' when he was on assignment last week, according to Miller's police statement.

The Post also reports that Baldwin grabbed one of their reporters, Tara Palmeri, by her arm and told her, "I want you to choke to death," Palmeri played a digital recording of the interaction for police.

The paper claims Baldwin wrote in Tweets he has since deleted "Moments after I tweet about the Post...the ex-crackhead 'photographer' shows up at my door w 1 of Murdoch's nieces in tow."

Baldwin's spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, called the allegations "completely false.''

"That's one of the most outrageous things I've heard in my life,' Hiltzik said.

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