Review: Tiny Beautiful Things at Stages Houston

The stage production Tiny Beautiful Things is based on Cheryl Strayed’s book of the same name. From 2010-2012, Strayed wrote anonymously for an online literary magazine under the pseudonym “Sugar,” responding to letters and giving advice to readers who wrote in. While a separate limited series was created, this play was adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. In this fabulously directed (by Ash Love) production at Stages Houston, three actors portray the different people who write in while Sugar draws from her own lived experience to answer and counsel them.