And not just because of the cycling Easter bunny. When my brother was a toddler, the opening credits of Steel Magnolias would send him running toward the television. He’d plop himself down for the ...

The South is freighted territory, thick with ghosts and nonsense, and performative professional Southerners who regularly lie to strangers, friends and sometimes themselves. I was born in and have ...

Robert Harling's play, about six women in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon, will be staged at Cabaret on Main Theater in ...

Marisa is a Senior News Author for Collider. She graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2018 after majoring in Creative Writing with a minor in Folk Studies. She grew up in Kentucky and ...

First of all, when you attend the current Ferndale Repertory Theatre production of the classic 1989 movie version of “Steel Magnolias,” I suggest you leave your memories of that acclaimed cinema ...

It’s Saturday morning at Truvy’s Beauty Salon in a little Louisiana town. Truvy reserves Saturday mornings for her closest friends. There’s laughter and sorrow and plenty of one-liners, especially ...

“Steel Magnolias” was a term playwright Robert Harling always heard applied to southern women when he was growing up in Natchitoches, Louisiana. After the devastating loss of his sister to diabetic ...