<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">No Strings Theatre Company will open its 2026-2027 Season with </span></span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Tiny Be</span></span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">autiful Things</span></span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">adapted for the stage by Nia </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Vardalos from </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">the </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">. In making it a “Critics Choice” the New York Times said </span></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">“</span></span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Tiny Beautiful Things</span></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;"> is about the endangered art of listening to – and really hearing and responding to – other people…it works beautifully as a sustained theatrical exercise in empathy.”</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font face="Arial Narrow" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);"><br></span></font><p class="s6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">When </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">Strayed</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">, a </span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">struggling writer</span></span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; color: rgb(26, 25, 25);"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-size: 1.5em;">,</span></span><span class="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