Karsten Moran for The New York Times Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes“The Happiest Song Plays Last,†the new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and the final work in her Elliot Trilogy about an Iraq War veteran, will be part of Second Stage Theater’s 2013-14 season, the theater announced on Monday.
Last season Second Stage presented “Water by the Spoonful,†the middle play in the trilogy, which also includes
“Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue.â€
“The Happiest Song Plays Last,†which had its premiere this spring at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, follows Elliot and his cousin Yaz as he enters the film business and she devotes herself to community activism in her Philadelphia neighborhood. No casting was announced for the Second Stage production, which is to be directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Second Stage’s season will open in October with the previously announced “Little Miss Sunshine,†James Lapine and William Finn’s musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated film.
Laura Eason’s “Sex With Strangers,†about the relationship between a sex blogger and an obscure nov! elist, will play next summer in a production to be directed by David Schwimmer. It will be the Second Stage debut for Ms. Eason, a staff writer for the Netflix series “House of Cards†and the former artistic director of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theater.
A fourth Second Stage production is still to be announced.
