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Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play
"Surprising, luminous, and powerful. It will mostl likely find a place in the American canon alongside Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy." —Laurie Winer, Los Angeles Times
A bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta in 1939, on the eve of World War II and the opening night of Gone with the Wind, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo deals in a very personal way with being Jewish in the South, depicting the prejudices that existed between German-American Jews and "the other kind."
"Part of the triumph of The Last Night of Ballyhoo is that Uhry allows ethical dilemmas and class tensions to arise without turning his characters into stick figures or the drama into a predetermined 'issue' play. Also remarkable is Uhry's gift for creating a stage full of characters so rich they all seem like leading roles."
― American Theatre
Alfred Uhry is an American playwright and screenwriter. His accolades include an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy, the first in his Atlanta Trilogy.