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Arts Weekly

Rose Barn Theatre Presents "Steel Magnolias"

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Published January 22, 2013 at 3:13 PM EST

What started out a couple of decades ago as Richmond Community Theatre has grown into Rose Barn Theatre. While the group no longer performs in the tobacco barn that gave them their current name, community is still a very big part of the mission. Art's Weekly's Roger Duvall talked with Alice Jones, one of the actors in the current production of Steel Magnolias.

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