It all started in a suburban New Jersey basement with some puppets, a tricycle and a double album by the Who. When Dinklage was six or seven, he and his older brother (now a successful violinist) would put on shows in their parents’ basement for “neighborhood elderly people. We’d do a puppet Quadrophenia,” Dinklage recalls, “set up little drum kits with tuna-fish cans and do a whole show and sell tickets for a bottle cap or whatever.