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Theater: 'Steel Magnolias' cathartic for mourning mother and daughter stars by Jane Horwitz

Sheri Herren, 50, says it's been a "healing process" for her and her daughter Laura Herren, 23, to play mother and child onstage in "Steel Magnolias." Keegan Theatre is doing Robert Harling's 1987 tragicomedy at Church Street Theatre through Aug. 21. Set among a group of women friends in a small-town Louisiana beauty salon in the 1980s, the play has much humor but is ultimately about M'Lynn (Sheri Herren) losing her …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:35PM on October 26, 2011

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