Question: Sarah Willis second novel is about a theater troupe preparing a performance of a novella written by who?
Context: Solomon Stramer was the leader of a Yiddish theater troupe founded in Vienna, Austria, but based in Cluj, Romania from 1919 at least until the late 1920s.  For a time, his troupe had the exclusive right to perform Yiddish-language theater in Transylvania, an area which at that time was home to about 300,000 Jews. Epilogue Players is a theater company based in Indianapolis, Indiana.  It was the first theater troupe for senior citizens founded in the United States and served as a model for the birth of the "senior theater" movement in the 1980s.  In 1981, comedian George Burns attended the theater's annual banquet and gave the theater "five cigars," and crediting his "junior colleagues" for their talent.  In 1990, Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon named visiting the theater among his favorite leisure activities. Diego Matamoros is a Canadian actor who has performed in theater, television and film.  In 1998, he won a Gemini award for his performance as Dr. Goldman in CBC's television miniseries "The Sleep Room".  His film credits have included "Resident Evil 2" (1998), "Fugitive Pieces" (2007) and "The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John" (2003).  In theater, he has received the Dora Mavor Moore Award multiple times for his performances, which include roles in "The Crucible" (2012) , "Idiot’s Delight" (2014), "Angels in America" (2013 & 2014), "Spoon River" (2014 & 2015), "Marat/Sade" (2015), and "The Dybbuk" (2015).  He is a founding member of Toronto's Soulpepper Theater Troupe. The Princeton Triangle Club is a theater troupe at Princeton University.  Founded in 1891, it is the oldest touring collegiate musical-comedy troupe in the United States, and the only co-ed collegiate troupe that takes an original student-written musical on a national tour every year.  The club is known for its tradition of featuring an all-male kickline in drag. Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck.  Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. The Blacklips Performance Cult was an avant-garde drag theater troupe based in New York City's Lower East Side, at the Pyramid Club.  The troupe was active from summer 1992 to spring 1995. Spiderwoman Theater is an American, indigenous women's performance troupe that blends traditional art forms with Western theater.  Founded in 1976, the core of the group is formed by sisters Muriel Miguel, Gloria Miguel, and Lisa Mayo.  It was the first Native American women's theater troupe and is named after the Spiderwoman deity from Hopi mythology. Sarah Willis is a novelist and short story writer.  She lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.  Her father, Kirk Willis, was an actor and director at the Cleveland Play House.  Theater and the arts have informed much of Willis’ work, especially her second novel, "The Rehearsal", which is about a theater troupe preparing a performance of "Of Mice and Men".  Her work is often set in either Cleveland, Ohio or Chautauqua, New York. Sarah Willis is a British French horn player.  She is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, and is a presenter of TV and online programs about classical music.  Sarah Willis was born in Maryland, United States, and grew up in Tokyo, Boston and Moscow and London.  She started playing the French horn at age 14, and attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department.  She later joined the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with Anthony Halstead and Jeff Bryant.  Moving to Berlin, she studied with Fergus McWilliam. Circus Amok is a New York City-based circus and theater troupe that produces free outdoor performances every year in the NYC parks.  Founded in 1989 by performance artist Jennifer Miller, who directs the company, the troupe began touring the city parks annually in 1994.  The company performs in small neighborhood parks and well-traveled public squares in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens.  Circus Amok's performances address various political themes and social justice issues, which in recent years have included housing, health care, gentrification, gay marriage, immigration, the Department of Homeland Security, police brutality, and public education.
Answer: John Steinbeck