GUEST PRODUCTION:

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

By Joan Didion

Presented by The Mavor Moore Theatre Society 

In Association With Western Gold Theatre

SEPTEMBER 10 – 12, 2026

Featuring Pia Shandel
Directed by Elizabeth Ball

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Adapted by Joan Didion from her own National Book Award–winning memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking is prized for the raw honesty and dark wit it brings to an experience nearly everyone eventually faces. Performed as a single-actor stage piece, the work is a stark and unflinching account of grief that has been widely produced since its Broadway premiere. Following the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the simultaneous critical illness and death of their daughter, Didion spent a year grappling with loss, memory, and the strange, irrational bargains the mind makes in the face of catastrophe.