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IVCC theater stages “Tiny Beautiful Things,” based on Cheryl Strayed’s advice columns · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  IVCC Theater stage Tiny Beautiful Things, based on Cheryl Strade's advice columnist
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  Written by Michael Urbanek. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice, brought to you by Everlet. Illinois Valley Community College's theater program
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  is scheduled to stage Tiny Beautiful Things, a play about an online
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  advice columnist and the strangers who write to her November 1215 at
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  the Dr. Mary Margaret Weig Cultural Center. Shows are set for 7.30
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  pm Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with a 2 p.m. Matinee Sunday according
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  to the college. Tickets cost 15 for adults and 10 for high
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  school students and younger, and IVCC students get in free. Tickets are
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  sold through the college's online box office at Kurt8.com/slash project slash IVCC.
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  The college advises parental discretion. The play includes adult themes and language
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  that may not be appropriate for young children according to the release.
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  Based on the book by Cheryl Strade, the play follows a struggling
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  columnist known as Sugar and a rotating set of people who come
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  to her for advice. Director Dale Young, an IVC theatre instructor, called
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  it a fun, fast moving play filled with a variety of characters
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  and situations, full of comedy and some very touching moments. Young put
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  the script on his list of plays he wanted to direct after
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  seeing a staged reading, according to the college. He said the timing
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  fits. We live in strange, disconnected, and highly anxious times, Young said.
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  Jennifer Walk of Hennepin, an IVCC alumna and veteran of Illinois Valley
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  stages, plays Sugar. IVCC students Hope Loza, Luke Gwillandry, Ava Talbot, and
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  Samuel Wade play the Advice Seekers. Student Addison Canellis is stage manager
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  and understudy. Laura Byrd of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a professional theater artist
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  and longtime young collaborator, designed the set. Lisa Gifford of LaSalle designed
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  the lighting, and Chad Brokaw, IBCC's Events and Technical Coordinator is Technical
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  Director.