Are you getting stopped all the time for advice now? You’ve just started your second run of Tiny Beautiful Things at the Public Theater. Here, Vardalos explains what makes the part so special, and how speaking Strayed’s advice every night has affected her own life in ways she never would have expected. It’s directed by Tommy Kail ( Dry Powder, Hamilton) and stars Nia Vardalos as Strayed, or really Sugar, and offers a look at some of the most heartrending, difficult, lovely, and astounding interactions she had with readers. That production of Tiny Beautiful Things is now in its second stint at The Public Theater, where it will run through December 10. Of course, she’d go on to become a famous author-she wrote the memoir Wild, which was made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon, among other books-but these days one of her works, Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of writing from her time as Dear Sugar, has found yet another life on the New York stage. It wasn’t anything like what you’d consider to be viral content, but nevertheless the column-“Dear Sugar”-became outrageously popular and beloved to the point that when Strayed revealed her identity, there was a celebration held in her honor. For about two years, beginning in 2010, Cheryl Strayed anonymously wrote an advice column for a literary website.
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