Staff Reports

VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University Theatre and Dance has announced its performances of “Tiny Beautiful Things” have been rescheduled.

The play was scheduled for the last week of September until Hurricane Helene changed everyone’s plans. With recovery well under way, the show is now scheduled for the last week of October.

Performances will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-26, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27.

“The dates were selected to give us time to hold brush up rehearsals after students return to campus,” VSU Theatre and Dance said in an email. “The new performance weekend is a Valdosta Symphony Orchestra performance. We are starting our show earlier to not overlap with VSO’s rehearsals and performance.”

If you have tickets for the original dates, those tickets have been moved to the respective day of the week of the new performance schedule, the email said.

If you need to adjust your tickets, please email Duke Guthrie at dguthrie@valdosta.edu with specifics. The box office will reopen Oct. 16 for its regular 2-5 p.m. times to make adjustments to reservations or to make new reservations.

From the VSU Theatre and Dance email: “Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that “Sugar” was publishing online from 2010-2012. Strayed, at the time a struggling writer was asked to take over the unpaid anonymous position of advice columnist, for “Dear Sugar,” an online column for The Rumpus.

“Strayed used empathy and her personal experiences to help those seeking guidance for obstacles both large and small. Strayed assembled two years’ worth of letters and her responses into a book entitled Tiny Beautiful Things. The book was suggested to journalist Marshall Heyman, who suggested it to stage director Thomas Kail who then suggested it to Nia Vardalos. The three decided to turn the bestseller into a play.”

Read The Daily Times original preview of “Tiny Beautiful Things” here.

The play does include adult themes and language.

VSU Theatre and Dance is working with other rights holders to move its other performances that have been impacted by the hurricane. Those dates will be announced later.