Following its critically-acclaimed and sold-out run last season, the uplifting and richly funny TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS returns to the Public’s larger Newman Theater with Academy Award-nominee Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) reprising the role of Sugar. Based on the best-selling book by author Cheryl Strayed (Wild), the play more...
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS was praised by The New York Times as “an ideal catharsis†and “handkerchief-soaking meditation on pain, loss, hope & forgiveness.â€
Thousands of people wrote letters asking for advice from an anonymous online columnist named Sugar, who drew from her own life experiences to answer in a candid, often brutally honest exchange. It was later revealed that Sugar was Cheryl Strayed. Vardalos adapts the book, weaving together the real letters to explore the monstrous beauty, unfathomable dark and glimmering light which are at the heart of being human.
Tony Award winner Thomas Kail (Dry Powder, Hamilton) directs this “incredibly moving†(Time Out) play about reaching when you’re stuck, healing when you’re broken and finding the courage to take on the questions which have no answer.