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OctOber 24-30, 2021 What's up! 5 Faq 'Tiny Beautiful Things' WHEN — 7:30 p.m., Tuesday- Saturday; 2 p.m. Satur- day-Sunday through Dec. 5 WHERE — TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St. in Fayetteville COST — $10-$51 INFO — 777-7477 FYI — Streaming performances are available as well. T2 policy requires proof of covid- 19 vaccination or proof of a negative covid-19 test within 72 hours before the perfor- mance. Masks are required. All The Emotions LARA JO HIGHTOWER NWA Democrat-Gazette T he practice of writing a stranger for help with a problem — advice columns, in other words — dates back at least to the 17th century. Yet when memoirist Cheryl Strayed took over the "Dear Sugar" column at The Rumpus website, she turned 400 years of tradition on its head. On March 11, 2010, her very first answer — given to the question "What sort of advice column is this?" — would set the tone. "If you took all the by-the-book common sense of Dear Abby and the earnest spiritual cheesiness of Cary Tennis. … and the closeted Upper Eastside nymphomania of Miss Manners and crushed them down into a single diamond-hard gem of pedantic know-it-allism, that's the sort of column that would make the old Sugar puke," Strayed wrote — anonymously at that point. "But the new Sugar? Kinda digs it." Strayed was a mother of two young children who had just completed the exhausting process of writing and submitting a book for publication — "Wild", the best-selling memoir that would eventually be adapted into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. Then a friend, who had been writing the "Dear Sugar" column, asked if she wanted to take over the role for him. Strayed had no experience giving advice, the gig paid nothing and, since she was writing under a pseudonym, offered no opportunities for professional advancement. Nonetheless, Strayed said yes. From the first column, her "Dear Sugar" replies — sometimes heavy, 'tiny beautiful things' proves no one is alone "That's the thing that I often tell people about this show — it's gonna break you, but it's going to build you up and heal you at the same time. You're going to leave a stronger, better, more empathetic person than when you came in," says cast member august Forman. (courtesy photo/ Wesley hitt for t2) See T2 Page 6 FayeTTeville