the play has been lauded for its genuine voice and memorable storytelling. "I think 'Steel Magnolias' is about growth and ...

the play deepens when the spunky Shelby (who is diabetic) contradicts her doctor’s advice and risks pregnancy. Steel Magnolias exemplifies the universal and unconditional strengths of sisterhood ...

Steel Magnolias is set in a small-town beauty parlor ... there are eccentric characters galore in this touching play. The play explores the lives of ordinary women going through situations that ...

Daryl Hannah was pitch perfect as the shy cosmetologist-in-training Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto in Herbert Ross' Steel Magnolias ... Ross' insistence she could not play Annelle in the 1989 film.