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"The most original production you will ever witness...You will never be the same after you see NOISE"
- Broadway World 
BY CÉSAR ALVAREZ
DIRECTED BY DANTE GREEN RHODE ISLAND PREMIERE DECEMBER 5 - 22 |
"Extraordinary....you'll leave the theater refreshed, renewed, and unburdened."
- The Westerly Sun "A blindly optimistic, brazenly experimental pipe dream project from a young artist with a sharp and curious mind."
- The Boston Globe "In my nearly 50 years of reviewing theatre, I have never seen a play quite like César Alvarez’s NOISE.”
- Cranston Herald "A thrilling new theatrical experience...NOISE is a breath of fresh air. If there's ever been a time to see and hear something new, this is it."
- EDGE Providence |
“Society is broken. Let’s fix it with music, like right now. - That’s the promotional tagline for writer/composer César Alvarez’s boundary-pushing, fourth wall-breaking NOISE. The play is making its Rhode Island debut with the Wilbury Theatre Group — the inventive and always engaging company whose creative mission to inspire thought-provoking conversation has most certainly been accomplished here. And then some."
-The Boston Globe
*RHODE ISLAND PREMIERE*
NOISE
BY
CÉSAR ALVAREZ
DIRECTED BY DANTE GREEN
CÉSAR ALVAREZ
DIRECTED BY DANTE GREEN
It’s an incisive and joyful new work.
A musical-in-the-making.
And kind of a party.
A bunch of musicians decide that society is broken, and since music is the blueprint for everything, they set out to make music that models a society they actually want to live in. As the show unravels into a dreamlike explosion of song and dance, the audience steps into a creative role. NOISE is a participatory theatrical celebration that sings across the history of music, and into the future, in a collective effort to invent a better world. Like right now. In this musical...
The brainchild of writer/composer César Alvarez - mastermind of the acclaimed Futurity in our 2018/19 Season - NOISE is a brand new musical directed by Dante Green, and brought to life by the most amazing interdisciplinary team of musicians, actors, and collaborators you've ever seen.
Originally commissioned by The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU, this production of NOISE is presented by Wilbury Theatre Group in collaboration with Spirits Go Blah productions, New York, with support from the Susan F. Gonsalves Charitable Fund, and audience members like you.
A musical-in-the-making.
And kind of a party.
A bunch of musicians decide that society is broken, and since music is the blueprint for everything, they set out to make music that models a society they actually want to live in. As the show unravels into a dreamlike explosion of song and dance, the audience steps into a creative role. NOISE is a participatory theatrical celebration that sings across the history of music, and into the future, in a collective effort to invent a better world. Like right now. In this musical...
The brainchild of writer/composer César Alvarez - mastermind of the acclaimed Futurity in our 2018/19 Season - NOISE is a brand new musical directed by Dante Green, and brought to life by the most amazing interdisciplinary team of musicians, actors, and collaborators you've ever seen.
Originally commissioned by The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU, this production of NOISE is presented by Wilbury Theatre Group in collaboration with Spirits Go Blah productions, New York, with support from the Susan F. Gonsalves Charitable Fund, and audience members like you.
NEWS + MEDIA
"A blindly optimistic, brazenly experimental pipe dream project from a young artist with a sharp and curious mind... NOISE gets us strangers to slow-dance and share words of loving kindness with one another, howl at the moon, and close our eyes and ponder the possibilities of social change."
- The Boston Globe
"The most original production you will ever witness-interactive from beginning to end-but one that will make you think long after the music has stopped...You will never be the same after you see NOISE and that's a damn good thing."
- Broadway World
"Wilbury's NOISE is a celebration of community...In my nearly 50 years of reviewing theatre, I have never seen a play quite like César Alvarez’s NOISE. The musical breaks all boundaries between actors and audience in a two-and-a-half-hour production that involves everyone in the building emotionally, intellectually and physically...The participatory musical is a happening that will indeed be different every night that it is presented. Go with an open mind. Be touched. Be inspired. Be hopeful."
- Cranston Herald
INTERVIEW W/ DANTE GREEN: The musical is the brainchild of writer/composer César Alvarez and is directed by Dante Green. As the show unravels into a dreamlike explosion of song and dance, the Wilbury Theatre Group does what it does best: invites the audience into a creative role in this immersive theater production..."
- Cranston Herald
"NOISE, the extraordinary (and delightfully unusual) new César Alvarez musical — on stage through Dec. 22 at Wilbury Theatre Group — offers us exactly what we — and our weary world — needs at this moment. Time to laugh, cry, think, feel and wonder....Participating in the "theatrical celebration," that is NOISE will be, I guarantee like nothing you've ever before experienced. I also guarantee that you'll leave the theater refreshed, renewed, and unburdened."
- The Westerly Sun
"A thrilling new theatrical experience...NOISE is a breath of fresh air. If there's ever been a time to see and hear something new, this is it. Highly recommended and very welcome, this will not only have you smiling long after the curtain closes, but you'll be telling everyone about this new kind of experience you just had.
- EDGE Providence
"Prepare yourself for something uniquely amazing as Wilbury Theatre Group brings together an exemplary team of interdisciplinary musicians, actors, and creative collaborators for an exploration on what musical theater can be. You have to be there. Ready yourself to be pleasantly surprised."
- MOTIF Magazine
- The Boston Globe
"The most original production you will ever witness-interactive from beginning to end-but one that will make you think long after the music has stopped...You will never be the same after you see NOISE and that's a damn good thing."
- Broadway World
"Wilbury's NOISE is a celebration of community...In my nearly 50 years of reviewing theatre, I have never seen a play quite like César Alvarez’s NOISE. The musical breaks all boundaries between actors and audience in a two-and-a-half-hour production that involves everyone in the building emotionally, intellectually and physically...The participatory musical is a happening that will indeed be different every night that it is presented. Go with an open mind. Be touched. Be inspired. Be hopeful."
- Cranston Herald
INTERVIEW W/ DANTE GREEN: The musical is the brainchild of writer/composer César Alvarez and is directed by Dante Green. As the show unravels into a dreamlike explosion of song and dance, the Wilbury Theatre Group does what it does best: invites the audience into a creative role in this immersive theater production..."
- Cranston Herald
"NOISE, the extraordinary (and delightfully unusual) new César Alvarez musical — on stage through Dec. 22 at Wilbury Theatre Group — offers us exactly what we — and our weary world — needs at this moment. Time to laugh, cry, think, feel and wonder....Participating in the "theatrical celebration," that is NOISE will be, I guarantee like nothing you've ever before experienced. I also guarantee that you'll leave the theater refreshed, renewed, and unburdened."
- The Westerly Sun
"A thrilling new theatrical experience...NOISE is a breath of fresh air. If there's ever been a time to see and hear something new, this is it. Highly recommended and very welcome, this will not only have you smiling long after the curtain closes, but you'll be telling everyone about this new kind of experience you just had.
- EDGE Providence
"Prepare yourself for something uniquely amazing as Wilbury Theatre Group brings together an exemplary team of interdisciplinary musicians, actors, and creative collaborators for an exploration on what musical theater can be. You have to be there. Ready yourself to be pleasantly surprised."
- MOTIF Magazine
CAST + CREATIVE TEAM
Cat Ashley
Michael Yussef Greene
Teddy Lytle
Dave Rabinow
Am Wyckoff
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Perry Barkett
Brien Lang
Riley Nedder
Tessa Sacramone
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Zan Berry
Cedric Lilly
Jomo Peters
Claudia Traub
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NOISE
by César Alvarez Direction + Music Direction by Dante Green Light Design by Haley Ahlborg Sound Design by Cat Ashley Choreography by Ali Kenner Brodsky Scenic Design by Christopher Hoyt Costume Design by Matt Oxley Asst. Direction by Jeffrey Ginsberg Asst. Music Direction by Milly Massey Technical Direction by Dave Carney Stage Manager, James Kane* Assistant Stage Manager, Kerin Hagin Assistant Stage Manager, Meagan Frye Costume Assistant, Arianna Davey House Management by Christine Treglia Volunteer Management by Renee Bessette Production Photographer, Erin X. Smithers Press / Media Inquiries: Niki Healy |
*Appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
César Alvarez 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, bandleader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice.
César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Kleban Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.
In addition to five full-length musicals they've written (Futurity, The Elementary Spacetime Show, The Universe is a Small Hat, Potluck, and NOISE) César has composed the music for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (Soho Rep, TFANA. Drama Desk Nomination), The Foundry Theater's Good Person of Szechwan (LaMaMa, The Public Theater. Drama Desk Nomination) and released four albums with The Lisps. In 2015 César co-founded Polyphone, a festival of new and emerging musicals at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. They served as Artistic Director for five seasons.
César has developed work in residencies and workshops with Soho Rep, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, New York Stage and Film, The Perelman Performing Arts Center, The Public Theater, The Civilians, A.R.T., MassMoCA, HERE, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Ensemble Studio Theater, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School/NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of the Arts, Princeton University, Adelphi University, PRELUDE, Joe’s Pub, Ucross/Sundance, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and The Vineyard Arts Project. Learn more about César's work at www.cesaralvarez.net.
César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award in 2016, The Kleban Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.
In addition to five full-length musicals they've written (Futurity, The Elementary Spacetime Show, The Universe is a Small Hat, Potluck, and NOISE) César has composed the music for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (Soho Rep, TFANA. Drama Desk Nomination), The Foundry Theater's Good Person of Szechwan (LaMaMa, The Public Theater. Drama Desk Nomination) and released four albums with The Lisps. In 2015 César co-founded Polyphone, a festival of new and emerging musicals at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. They served as Artistic Director for five seasons.
César has developed work in residencies and workshops with Soho Rep, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop, New York Stage and Film, The Perelman Performing Arts Center, The Public Theater, The Civilians, A.R.T., MassMoCA, HERE, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Ensemble Studio Theater, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School/NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, The University of the Arts, Princeton University, Adelphi University, PRELUDE, Joe’s Pub, Ucross/Sundance, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and The Vineyard Arts Project. Learn more about César's work at www.cesaralvarez.net.
Dante Green (they/she/he) (Director) is a New York City-based director, writer, composer, and producer. They have been collaborating with César Alvarez for over 8 years, performing in their musicals Elementary Spacetime Show and the World Premiere of Noise, as well as directing productions of Futurity and Associate Directing their new musical in development The Potluck. Dante is the Founding Artistic Director of The Makers' Ensemble, a current Mercury Store Resident Director, and a former Wesleyan Breaking New Ground Residency Fellow. Other previous credits include: Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble) and Science Park by Noah Mease (Judson Arts). Learn more about Dante's work at www.dantegreen.com Insta: @dantemgreen
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