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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Truman Capote’s autobiographical novella, A Christmas Memory, deals with his loving friendship with his elderly eccentric cousin Sook, and takes place during a period in the writer’s childhood when, due to his mother’s marital vicissitudes, he was…

LADCC Critics
December 1, 2015

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A CHRISTMAS MEMORY at the Laguna Playhouse

David C. Nichols – LA Times Delicate, bittersweet nostalgia suffuses “A Christmas Memory,” Truman Capote’s enduring 1956 autobiographical story, and the Laguna Playhouse staging of Duane Poole, Carol Hall and Larry Grossman’s 2010 musical adaptation honors that ethos.Read more… Now…

LADCC Critics
December 19, 2013

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