STEEL MAGNOLIAS Opens Tomorrow at Little Fish Theatre

Little Fish Theatre today announced the opening of the spirited and heartwarming classic of stage and screen: STEEL MAGNOLIAS. An eclectic group of ladies share their joys and sorrows in this beloved comedic drama by Robert Harling.

The center of a small town is its beauty shop, where social veneers are set aside and women who see one another once a week, building relationship and community. Together they revel in one another's joys, and face life's bitterness with extraordinary mettle that suits the metaphor in the play's title.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS will feature a powerful lineup of actors: Chiquita Fuller, Kristin Towers-Rowles, Susie McCarthy, Amanda Karr, Mary-Margaret Lewis and Daina Baker Bowler. "These are ordinary women brought to extraordinary light," notes director James Rice. "Harling's story allows us to see how deep and abiding friendship helps these women, and all of us, to weather the trials of life and to find our place in the world." James recently directed enormously Popular Productions of REAL ESTATE and Noel Coward's PRESENT LAUGHTER for LITTLE FISH THEATRE.

The play will run Friday and Saturday at 8pm Jun 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 and Jul 5, 6, 12 and 13. Midweek performances will be presented at 8pm on Wednesday, July 10 Thursday, July 11. A Sunday matinee is scheduled for 2pm on July 7, after which the creative team will be available for 10 to 15 minutes for post-show discussion with the audience.

Founded in 2002, Little Fish Theatre presents classic and contemporary plays in an intimate setting on Centre Street in downtown San Pedro. Producing eleven plays each year for a one-room 65-seat venue, Little Fish delivers the quintessential close-up theatrical experience, where audience and performers share space and sight-lines, making for eruptive laughter, highly-charged action and palpable emotion.