The Gabriel Plays & Tiny Beautiful Things to Extend at Public Theater Off-Broadway

Updates from the Public Theater off-Broadway. First up, the final two installments in Richard Nelson’s acclaimed The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family have been extended an additional week. The second play of the trilogy, What Did You Expect, will now run through October 9. Tickets are now available for the final play in the cycle, Women of a Certain Age, which has been extended through December 4.

What Did You Expect is scheduled to begin performances on September 10, officially opening on September 16. Women of a Certain Age is set to start on November 4 and open on Election Day, November 8. The company features Meg Gibson as Karin Gabriel, Lynn Hawley as Hannah Gabriel, Roberta Maxwell as Patricia Gabriel, Maryann Plunkett as Mary Gabriel, Jay O. Sanders as George Gabriel and Amy Warren as Joyce Gabriel.

Meanwhile, Tiny Beautiful Things, based on the book by best-selling author Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos with direction by Thomas Kail, has been extended two weeks to December 31. The new show is co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Kail and Vardalos, and will also feature Vardalos as the anonymous online advice columnist “Sugar.” Tiny Beautiful Things is scheduled to begin previews on November 15 and will officially open on December 7.