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See the beloved play the popular movie is based on – STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana is the place where the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Truvy dispenses shampoos and free advice to the town’s queen bees: local social leader, M’Lynn, whose daughter, Shelby, is about to get married; eccentric millionaire, Miss Clairee, who has a raging sweet tooth; rich curmudgeon, Ouiser, who’s been in a bad mood for forty years; all helped out by Truvy’s eager new assistant, Annelle. Filled with hilarious repartee, this lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town South will have your heart aching with laughter and heartbreak.

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Steel Magnolias

Long Beach Playhouse

In this undeniably moving new adaptation, Anne Frank emerges from history, a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. Anne’s voice shines through in this impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, as it captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. This is a powerful new adaptation for a new generation  that never lets us forget the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human heroine.

Director

Phyllis B. Gitlin

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May 16 - Jun 14, 2025

Steel Magnolias · Long Beach Playhouse

May 16 - Jun 14, 2025

Steel Magnolias · Long Beach Playhouse

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