Daphne's Dive

The new play by Quiara Alegria Hudes

Two stage and screen award-winners join forces in Signature Theatre's brand-new work, set to open in April; Tony Award-winning Daphne Rubin-Vega, who played Mimi in the original Broadway production of RENT, and the SAG winner Samira Wiley from Orange Is The New Black play just two of a vibrant group of eccentrics who frequent a down at-heel bar in a North Philadelphia neighborhood. They may get together to discuss art, life and politics, but as the drinks flow, we get to learn their true struggles, hopes and dreams.

In the works since 2012, Daphne's Dive is the latest piece from playwright and composer Quiara Alegria Hudes, the artist who penned the book to Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights; she also won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Water By The Spoonful. Philly born and bred, Hudes returns to her old roots in this brand-new play that takes us into a dusty old dive bar, and the seven souls who frequently inhabit it.

The stage set is reminiscent of Once, with a live musician as part of the surroundings, with the bar itself playing the last character. Rubin-Vega and Wiley both play bar patrons, Inez and Ruby, respectively, with Hamilton director Thomas Kail at the helm.