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Because the story centers on a cross-country road trip, [composer Erin] McKeown says she wanted the score to incorporate a wide variety of American genres and idioms in order to reflect the diversity of the nation itself. The show’s rich musical vocabulary includes everything from folk, rock, and jazz to blues, gospel, and Tejano and Cajun flavors.

Summer L. Williams directs Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown’s musical “Miss You Like Hell,” a cross-country road trip taken by a mother and daughter, en route to the mother’s immigration hearing.

With a mix of iconoclasm and patriotism, Erin McKeown has created a unique and emblematic piece of art in the musical “Miss You Like Hell,” which follows a mother and daughter road trip and looks at the border wall that may come between them.

At the American Repertory Theater, “Barber Shop Chronicles” celebrates the camaraderie and intimacy of black barbershops in Africa and England. On stage, the shops come alive with arguments over Nelson Mandela, soccer, family, and music. There is dancing, there are tears, there are secrets shared. Some men come in to get cuts, some are there to just be among friends.