This is the 70th anniversary of John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," and the play he adapted from it, also in 1937, is being honored in a tiny theater on a West Side street where drunks and derelicts roam.
One day, in 1993, I saw a fantastic play, Glengarry Glen Ross in a tiny theater -- the Donmar Warehouse -- that I learned was about to shut down, as it was not a good economic period in England at that time.
Two weeks later, he went to see her perform in a tiny theater on the Upper West Side.
This is a bare-bones production in a tiny theater, but the cast and the director, Chris Henry, give it texture and depth.
The four use way too many microphones in a tiny theater that requires none, but the excessive volume is part of what makes the piece work: it frees you somehow from taking any of it too seriously.
Moving from outsized to miniature, displayed in the same gallery is an exquisite porcelain headrest with a surprise tucked away in its hollow base: a tiny theater with gallery actors performing the roles of Taoist immortals having a birthday party.
That's the advantage of the tiny theater in the basement of the Museum of Arts and Design, where the monthly series Dance Under the Influence began in February.
The production was held in a tiny basement theater in Germany, the Chemnitzer Kabarett, with less than 150 seats.
For those who have followed Ms. Gilman's career from its abrupt beginnings at a tiny storefront theater in an unfashionable Chicago suburb, this nervous talk of high expectations and answers to large social issues seems incongruous.
And so Tom Cole's drama, directed by Jim Pelegano and playing in a revival by the Blue Heron Theater in a tiny, intimate house in its center at 123 East 24th Street, retains its relevance, its power, its tortured compassion.
