Due to strong demand, TheatreSquared’s production of Miss You Like Hell, the epic road trip musical from Erin McKeown and the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-creator of In the Heights, Quiara Alegría Hudes, will extend to add an additional seven shows during its run. Northwest Arkansas audiences have packed the theater for a show the Wall Street Journal called the best musical of the year. The production will now continue through July 17, but may not extend further due to scheduling constraints.
Tickets for the new dates are now on sale, ranging from $20-$54, and can be purchased by calling (479) 777-7477 or visiting theatre2.org. Miss You Like Hell is performed in TheatreSquared’s Spring Theatre (477 W. Spring St., Fayetteville).
About the Play
A new musical with vast heart and fierce humor, Miss You Like Hell exudes joy, frustration, and the love of being a family in a changing America. In this "powerful and complex American road story" (The New York Times), a whip-smart, deeply imaginative teenager sets out on an unexpected road trip with her free-spirited mother all the way from Philly to L.A.
"It’s a musical about love," said T2 Artistic Director Robert Ford, "and what it means to be loved. And yes, it’s funny, and full of soaring songs, crises, the promise and contradictions of America, and offbeat roadside characters who turn out to be unlikely heroes. But at the end of the day, Miss You Like Hell is about who we are to those who know us best—and it’ll win you over so deeply you’ll want to see it twice."
Critics and audiences alike hailed this newest musical by Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown. Variety called it "a fresh take on the American road story, filled with people and ideas we rarely get to see onstage… It’s hard not to be moved by the newly earned parent-child bond, by lessons learned on a road well-traveled and, ultimately, by walls that stand in the way of loving families."
T2’s production is directed by Esteban Arévalo Ibáñez, a graduate of the University of Arkansas M.F.A. program in directing. Janyce Caraballo, who has performed with renowned Chicago theaters like Teatro Vista, Raven Theatre, and Emerald City Theatre, will play Olivia; Francisca Muñoz, who returns to T2 after last appearing in Tiny Beautiful Things and American Mariachi, will play the free spirited mother, Beatriz. The talented ten-person cast also includes Trent Dahlin, Bryce Kemph, Hayleigh Hart Franklin, Stephanie Freeman, Lee Palmer, JL Rey, K. Chinthana Sotakoun, and Kylie Groom Stacy.
Miss You Like Hell is an original musical, written by an all-female writing team—Quiara Alegría Hudes, who was the first Latina playwright to win a Pulitzer for her play Water by the Spoonful, and who is a Tony winner for the book of In the Heights, wrote the book. The music is composed by Erin McKeown, a boundary pushing musician who has produced ten albums that span from jazz standards to rock.
Tickets
Performances of Miss You Like Hell are scheduled from now until July 17, with 7:30pm performances Tuesday through Saturday and 2pm matinees on Saturday and Sunday. The play is in the Spring Theatre at TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring Street in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas. Tickets range from $20-$54. All fees are included, with no additional charges at checkout.
Subscription packages for TheatreSquared include full seven-play packages starting at $119, with four-to-six-play flex packages starting at $89. Benefits for season ticket holders include savings of up to 20% on every show, free unlimited exchanges, discounted reserved parking, and same-day discounts in The Commons Bar/Café and other T2 Restaurant & Hotel Partners.
Through T2’s Lights Up! For Access program, supported by the Walmart Foundation, SNAP benefit recipients can purchase $1 tickets, while students and patrons under the age of 30 can purchase $10 tickets. Fully subsidized, free tickets are also available for clients of a number of local community service organizations. For more information, visit theatre2.org/lights-up.
Subscription packages and single tickets can be reserved by calling TheatreSquared at (479) 777-7477 or by visiting theatre2.org/subscribe.
About TheatreSquared
TheatreSquared’s signature offering of bold new plays in an intimate setting has driven its growth to become the state’s largest theatre, offering more than 350 performances annually in two intimate spaces and online. The playwright-led company is one of mid-America’s leading laboratories for new work, having launched more than 60 new plays. Notable collaborators have included Bryna Turner, Anne García-Romero, Pulitzer Prize finalist Lisa D’Amour, Qui Nguyen, Mona Mansour, Tony Award nominee Lee Blessing, Amy Evans, and many others. TheatreSquared’s remarkable expansion—with a twentyfold increase in audience in just the past decade—parallels the emergence of its home region in the northwest corner of Arkansas as a booming population center and destination for American art. Offering far-reaching access and education programs and an open-all-day gathering space, The Commons Bar/Café, TheatreSquared remains rooted in its founding vision, that "theatre—done well and with passion—can transform lives and communities."
Major funding for the TheatreSquared Season 16 is provided by The Walton Family Foundation, Inc.; the Walmart Foundation; the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage; the Tyson Family Foundation; the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation, Inc.; the Windgate Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; Bob and Becky Alexander; Margaret and Dick Rutherford; the Francis Lee Scott Estate; Barbara Shadden; the John & Robyn Horn Foundation; the Shubert Foundation; Todd Simmons and Melissa Hall Simmons; and Simmons.
Marketing support for TheatreSquared Season 16 is provided by Experience Fayetteville, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Fayetteville Flyer, 3W Magazine, CitiScapes, KUAF, and MailCo USA.