Robert Harling News

Robert Harling's 'Steel Magnolias' directed by Betty Gregg opens at the Pittsburg Community Theatre on February 12.

Robert Harling's 'Steel Magnolias' directed by Betty Gregg opens at the Pittsburg Community Theatre on February 12.

Robert Harling's 'Steel Magnolias' directed by Betty Gregg opens at the Pittsburg Community Theatre on February 12.

The Windham Theatre Guild continues their 2009-2010 Main Stage Theatre season with their mid-winter show Steel Magnolias...a heartwarming comedy opening February 5th at the Burton Leavitt Theatre, 779 Main Street, Willimantic.

The Ballad of Sucio's Frog - from a story by James Wood. Sucio Calzon, a viejo campesino eager to save his famous crop from thieves, creates Big Science...but sometimes Big Science is just too BIG!

The Windham Theatre Guild continues their 2009-2010 Main Stage Theatre season with their mid-winter show Steel Magnolias...a heartwarming comedy opening February 5th at the Burton Leavitt Theatre, 779 Main Street, Willimantic.

Former St. Louis radio personality, public relations executive and local professional actress, Kim Furlow and her husband, Andy Knef, both of Ballwin will open Dramatic License Theatre February 4, at the new 'Artropolis' arts district at Chesterfield Mall, with the comedy/drama, STEEL MAGNOLIAS. The new theatre and cabaret production company (dba: Dramatic License Productions) will be the first to present high-quality professional theatre and cabaret west of I-270. Seating 95 patrons, the new Dramatic License Theatre is accessible via the upper-level Chesterfield Mall entrance next to Houlihans.

Robert Harling's 'Steel Magnolias' directed by Betty Gregg opens at the Pittsburg Community Theatre on February 12.

Le Petit Theatre's January lineup reads like a love letter to Louisiana's eclectic culture and personalities.

Le Petit Theatre's January lineup reads like a love letter to Louisiana's eclectic culture and personalities.

If, indeed, 'it takes a village,' and if, as the poets say, 'no man is an island,' then perhaps no art form is more collaborative than live theatre. With a village of artists backstage and offstage assuring that each production is mounted, then coming to life during each performance, the collaborative effort is renewed. And what audiences see onstage is the collaboration of artists, the people who comprise the acting ensemble, the folks who bring the stagebound script to life, sending it soaring into our imaginations.

Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre presents the Southern tale of Robert Harling's 'Steel Magnolias' from April 16 to April 25.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced early casting for the 2010 Shakespeare in the Park summer season. Daniel Sullivan will direct THE MERCHANT OF VENICE in rotating rep with THE WINTER'S TALE, directed by Michael Greif. The repertory company will feature Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Solanio/Young Shepherd); Jesse L. Martin (Gratiano/Polixenes); Al Pacino (Shylock); Lily Rabe (Portia/First Gentlewoman); Ruben Santiago-Hudson as (Prince of Morocco/Leontes); and Max Wright (Old Gobbo/Old Shepherd).

Hillbarn Theatre invites you inside Truvy's Beauty Parlor where the lives of six women come together in the comedy play Steel Magnolias.

With Tennessee Repertory Theatre celebrating its 25th year as one of the nation's premier regional theatres, it's only appropriate that the season kicks off with a revival of Robert Harling's iconic Southern comedy Steel Magnolias, running October 3-24 at the Andrew Johnson Theatre at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

Hillbarn Theatre invites you inside Truvy's Beauty Parlor where the lives of six women come together in the comedy play Steel Magnolias.

The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to announce a brand new production of Robert Harling's acclaimed exploration of the rich charm and engaging idiosyncrasies of Southern womanhood, Steel Magnolias. Steel Magnolias will open September 11 and run through October 11, with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees.

Directed by Tennessee Rep's singularly accomplished producing artistic director Rene Dunshee Copeland, this fine production is so much more than a mere revival of the company's 1989 production, although it once again stars Mary Jane Harvill in the role of M'Lynn. This staging is perhaps most newsworthy because it pairs Harvill onstage for the first time with her daughter, Marin Miller, who plays the doomed Shelby in Steel Magnolias. As the launch of this silver anniversary season, perhaps no one could come up with a more apropos project: Harvill was one of the founding actors of the company in the mid-1980s, while Miller has left her own sizable imprint on the company in more recent years. Copeland is to be commended for her decision to cast the mother-and-daughter team and for her lovingly felt and richly etched production.

With Tennessee Repertory Theatre celebrating its 25th year as one of the nation's premier regional theatres, it's only appropriate that the season kicks off with a revival of Robert Harling's iconic Southern comedy Steel Magnolias, running October 3-24 at the Andrew Johnson Theatre at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment in association with The Welk Resorts Theatre are proud to present the first production of La Mirada Theatre's 2009-2010 season of shows, Cathy Rigby and Michael Learned starring in the funny and moving, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, written by Robert Harling and directed by La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts Producing Artistic Director Brian Kite. STEEL MAGNOLIAS will begin performances on Friday, October 2 (with a press opening on Saturday, October 3) and will run through Sunday, October 18 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Boulevard in La Mirada.