playing<\/a>\u00a0June 30-August 2, 2026, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons (416 W 42nd St).<\/p>\nSally Alvarez was born in Greensboro, NC, and grew up in Georgia. She has lived in the South for most of her life. After producing a number of documentary films on civil rights, labor rights, and social justice topics, she worked for 20 years as a labor educator for Cornell\u2019s School of Industrial Relations in New York, where she also taught Southern labor history. She retired in 2019. She lives in Yonkers with her husband, Joe.<\/p>\n
C\u00e9sar Alvarez (they\/them) is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create big experimental gatherings disguised as musicals in the key of inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader and sound artist, C\u00e9sar\u2019s work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. C\u00e9sar has written seven full-length musicals, FUTURITY (Soho Rep\/Ars Nova. 2016 Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical); The Elementary Spacetime Show; The Universe is a Small Hat; NOISE (a commission of The Public Theater); egg; The Potluck; and Painting Mary. At Soho Rep C\u00e9sar composed the music for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\u2019 An Octoroon (Drama Desk Nomination), and Washeteria. C\u00e9sar was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, 2020-22 Hermitage Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for Lyrics in 2022. C\u00e9sar teaches at Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n
CREATIVE TEAM<\/p>\n
The Brick
SoHo Rep<\/p>\n
Sally Alvarez<\/p>\n
INTAR Theatre<\/p>\n
Find them:\u00a0@sohorep @cesxr_alvarez @toneymovies @intartheatre<\/p>\n
Special thanks:\u00a0Soho Rep, C\u00e9sar Alvarez, Sally Alvarez, Dante Green, Peter Mills Weiss, Caleb Hammons, Cynthia Flowers, Eric Ting, Soho Rep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BrickFlix, The Brick, Soho Rep, and INTAR presentRed November, Black NovemberDirected by Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jungplaying August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-302625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}