The show follows a troubled teenage girl who embarks on a cross-country road trip with her estranged mother, who is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
Quiara Alegría Hudes was first commissioned by Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director to the La Jolla Playhouse, in February 2012 to write a new work after her success with plays such as In the Heights and Water by the Spoonful, for which she won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
[1] Later that year Hudes teamed up with singer/songwriter Erin McKeown and director Lear deBessonet to write a new musical, Miss You Like Hell.
[1] In August 2016 it was announced that Daphne Rubin-Vega and Krystina Alabado would star in a full production of the new musical at the Mandell Weiss Theatre at the La Jolla Playhouse.
In 2020, the show was scheduled to be performed at theaters in Olney, MD, Providence, RI, St. Louis, MO, Northampton, MA, St. Paul, MN, Washington, DC and Seattle, WA.