Cast members of the upcoming production of Steel Magnolias by Actors Circle at Providence Playhouse include, Susan Patrick, seated. Standing, from left: Rachel Lucille Woodworth, Jennifer Frey Abdalla, and Kelly Kapacs. 
Actors Circle will present Steel Magnolias this month at Providence Playhouse with Norine Maier, left, portraying M’Lynn, and Jessica McGuigan, right, as her daughter Shelby. 
Cast and staff for an upcoming production of Steel Magnolias to be presented by Actors Circle at Providence Playhouse include, seated from left: Norine Maier and Jessica McGuigan. Standing, same order: Eric Lutz, Jeff Ginsberg, Rachel Lucille Woodworth, Jennifer Frey Abdalla, Susan Parrick, Kelly Kapacs, Cathy Rist Strauch, and David Alejandro Smith.
Actors Circle presents Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias at Providence Playhouse, 1256 Providence Road, Scranton. This comedy-drama is set in the fictional northwestern Louisiana parish of Chinquapin at Truvy’s in-home beauty parlor where a group of women regularly gather and discuss things about their lives.
Directed by Eric Lutz, the cast includes: Norine Maier as M’Lynn, and Jessica McGuigan as her daughter, Shelby; Jennifer Frey Abdalla as Truvy, and Rachel Lucille Woodworth as her awkwardly shy assistant, Annelle; Kelly Kapacs as the curmudgeon Ouiser, and Susan Parrick as Clairee, her sweet friend..
Others on the production staff include: David Alejandro Smith as Stage Manager, Cathy Rist Strauch and Jeff Ginsberg as producers, and Casey Thomas assisting with set and design.
Show dates are April 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, and May 1. Curtain is 8 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays;, Sundays at 2 p.m.; Saturdays on April 23 at 1 p.m., and April 29 at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $12 General, $10, Senior, $8 Student; and on Thursday, April 21: $8 General and Senior, $6 Student. For reservations email to tickets@actorscircle.com, or call 570-342-9707.
Actors Circle is supported in part by a grant from the Lackawanna County Grant for the Arts and Culture, and the Scranton Area Community Foundation.