by Mike Hoban

‘Miss You Like Hell’ – Book & Lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes; Music & Lyrics by Erin McKeown; Directed by Summer L. Williams; Music Director: David Coleman; Scenic Designer: Erik D. Diaz; Costume Designer: Danielle Domingue Sumi; Lighting Designer: Justin Paice; Sound Designer: Rachel Neubauer. Co-produced with American Repertory Theater as part of the A.R.T. Breakout Series at Oberon, 3 Arrow St. Cambridge through January 27.

Company One and the A.R.T. couldn’t have picked a better time to stage Miss You Like Hell, a mother-daughter road trip musical by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes (who also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning In the Heights) and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown. With the anti-immigrant rhetoric being spewed on a seemingly daily basis throughout the midterms and into the New Year by the president and his supporters, the plight of the undocumented in this country is top of mind for many – and front and center of this flawed but entertaining work.

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