Gloria Loring Stars in Coyote StageWorks' THE LADY WITH ALL THE ANSWERS at the Annenberg

Coyote StageWorks, the Coachella Valley based award-winning Actors' Equity professional theater company will conclude its 2016-2017 theatrical season with a production of "The Lady With All the Answers," a popular one-woman play that will feature Coachella Valley favorite Gloria Loring as she portrays the beloved American advice columnist Ann Landers.

The production will run April 14 - 23, 2017 with eight performances at the Annenberg Theater in the Palm Springs Art Museum.

The fully staged play brings to life the wise, funny, no-nonsense woman whose daily dialogue with America helped shape the social and sexual landscapes of the last half-century.

This heartwarming comedy/drama by writer, playwright, actor and producer David Rambo gives us a chance to get up close and personal with "Eppie" Lederer, better known to the world as Ann Landers. This folksy, funny, and straightforward one-woman play is set in Eppie's plush, traditionally furnished living room on a late night in 1975. Eppie ominously lets on in the show's first few minutes that she is preparing to write the "most important column of my career." But like many another journalist facing a deadline, she insists on exhausting all forms of procrastination before settling down to crank out her copy.

Instead of rapping out those few momentous paragraphs, Eppie entertains the audience with cozy tales of her colorful history, interspersing these with readings of some of her favorite letters, including questions about nude housekeeping, sex in a motorcycle helmet, sibling rivalries, addiction, religion and wandering spouses.

The play will star renowned actress Gloria Loring, of "Days of Our Lives" fame, who blew away audiences with her award-winning performance in the Coyote StageWorks production of "Love, Loss and What I Wore." In "The Lady With All the Answers," Loring will portray the popular advice columnist as she struggles to complete her latest installment while dealing with a new kind of heartbreak: her own. The Chicago Tribune calls the play "... warmhearted ...highly entertaining, and frequently moving..." and the Los Angeles Times describes it as "...engaging from beginning to end."

The 2016-2017 Coyote StageWorks season is generously sponsored by Annette Bloch and David Lee. Earlier this year, David Lee also issued a $30,000 challenge grant that doubled any donation the company received. Donna MacMillan recently joined as the generous production sponsor.

Gloria Loring is an actress primarily known for her role "Liz Chandler" on "Days Of Our Lives." She has starred in several Movies of the Week, television specials, and theatrical productions, including a national tour of "Anything Goes." She is also a recording artist of the #1 hit song "Friends and Lovers," and co-composed the television theme songs for "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Facts Of Life." She has shared the stage with the Pointer Sisters, The Supremes, Billy Crystal, Bill Cosby, and Bob Hope, and performed on numerous award shows, including the Emmy Awards, Academy Awards, and Golden Globes. She is one of few artists to sing two nominated songs at the Academy Awards. She is a spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is the authorof five books benefitting people with diabetes. Gloria was honored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation with the Lifetime Commitment Award and the Founders Award from the National Disease Research Interchange. The Miss America Organization gave her the Woman of Achievement Award, an honor she shares with past recipients Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, and Hillary Clinton.

Coyote StageWorks is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 company dedicated to advancing theatre as a vital art form in the desert communities of the Coachella Valley. It is their mission to provide a forum for thought-provoking, entertaining, and culturally significant works in an environment that nurtures the creativity of the individual and the enrichment of the community. These shows are not Palm Springs Art Museum or Annenberg Theater presentations. Voted "Best Live Theater" by the readers of Desert Magazine in 2013 and 2014, Coyote StageWorks has won 65 Desert Star Awards from the Desert Theatre League, a theater support group that promotes theater in the Coachella Valley and Morongo Basin.

Tickets are $45 - $55 for matinees and $50 - $60 for evening performances. A Q&A session with cast members will follow the Thursday matinees. To purchase individual tickets or subscriptions, call 760-325-4490 or visit www.annenbergtheater.org. For group sales, call 760-318-0024.

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