

Fri, Mar 20
|Open Space for Arts & Community
The Year of Magical Thinking
This dramatic adaptation of Joan Didion's award-winning, bestselling memoir, transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.
Time & Location
Mar 20, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Open Space for Arts & Community, 18870 103rd Ave SW, Vashon, WA 98070, USA
About the Event
Tickets on sale February 1st!
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” - Joan Didion
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.
This VRT production, with actor Catherine MacNeal as Didion, will be performed in an intimate setting that brings the audience into Didion’s personal orbit. Post show discussions led by local grief and theatre experts, will follow each performance.
Directed by Chris Boscia
