"Intensely engaging new drama. Hudes is a very accomplished storyteller, a playwright with an emergent, fulsome American narrative." The Chicago Tribune Nelson Gonzales and Jaime Tirelli

"Ex-Marine Elliot bears a terrible burden, and he would like more than anything to unload it, or better bury it. This is the sorrowful lyric of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ magnificent play." Chicago On the Aisle

"Nimbly maneuvers between communal intimacy and global upheaval... Hudes is a poetic researcher and an honorable chronicler." - Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post Armando Riesco, Annapurna Sriram, and Dariush Kashani

THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST

In a barrio kitchen in North Philly, a professor moonlights as a soup kitchen queen, offering rice and beans to any hungry neighbor. Halfway around the world, her cousin relives his military trauma on a Hollywood film set. With the Egyptian revolution booming in the distance and local unrest erupting in Philly, these two cousins sing a defiant song of protest. World premiere at The Goodman Theater directed by Eddie Torres, New York premiere at Second Stage directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson with music by legend Nelson Gonzales.

Watch the trailer for the Goodman Theater.