April 19, 2025 at 7:30pm
FREE Concert at the at the David Rubenstein Atrium
1887 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
RSVP HERE
On November 3, 1979 five communist labor organizers were murdered in broad daylight in the streets of Greensboro, NC by a group of KKK and Nazis. All five of the victims had committed their lives to fighting the rule of the capitalist class. The murders had been planned and supported by paid informants of the Greensboro Police and agencies within the U.S. government. One year later in Greensboro, César James Alvarez was born into the survivor community and named after two of the victims, César Cauce and James Waller. 36 years after that an entertainment company paid César to write a musical about the Greensboro Massacre, but it turned into a musical about ghosts and queerness and feelings and how to recuperate from trauma that happened to you before you were even born, and also capitalism.
Join us for this concert version of The Potluck with a cast of New York-based performers, along with a visual accompaniment by the artist and designer Emily Orling.
Featuring
Anthony Alfaro
Ben Anthony Anderson
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El Beh
Ari Brand
Jacob Brandt
Esteban Andres Cruz
Sammy Figueroa
Rubén Flores
Eamon Goodman
Dionne McClain-Freeney
Barbara Walsh
April 5 at 7pm and April 6 at 1pm
FREE Concert at the Warehouse at Dartmouth College
4 Currier Pl
RSVP HERE
César Alvarez: Book, Music, Lyrics and Music Director
Emily Orling: Visuals, Production Designer and Spiritual Advisor
Sarah Benson: Director
Noelle Viñas and Goblin Brain Productions: Line Producer
Piper Hill: Projection and Captions Designer
Dante Green: Associate Director
Dionne McClain Freeney: Associate Music Director
Madeline Benson: Arranger and Orchestrator
Eamon Goodman: Audio Supervisor
Jordan Weiner: Stage Manager
Trevor Williams: Stage Manager
Amanda Spooner: Production Coordinator
Taylor Williams: Casting
at Dartmouth:
Raegan Padula: Audio Engineer
Lucia Hartray: Assistant Stage Manager
Produced with Support from The Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth Department of Music, The Dean of Faculty at Dartmouth College, Soho Rep and Lincoln Center. The Potluck was originally commissioned by Barbara Whitman and Beth Williams at Grove Entertainment.
development history and audio samples here
Past Events
egg
November 9 + 10, 2024
at Dartmouth College
November 23, 2024
at Lincoln Center
by César Alvarez and Emily Orling
Saturday 11/9/24 @ 7pm
Sunday 11/10/24 @ 1pm
egg @ The DEV Studio at Dartmouth College
002 North Fairbanks Building
Link to Map
Hanover, NH
FREE | Seating is limited RSVP HERE
Saurday 11/23/24
egg @ David Rubinstein Atrium
at Lincoln Center
7:30pm | FREE
INFO HERE
egg is a theatrical staging of César’s album alongside live ceramics by Emily Orling. This performative salad of sound, poetics, anecdotes, and real-time collaboration calls up unthinkable thoughts about creative kinship, small-town futurism, trans-middle age, mediocre parenting, and the ancient unreliable religion of art-making.
César Alvarez - Saxophone + Guitar + Synthesizer
Emily Orling - Live Ceramics
Brian Shankar Adler - Percussion
Eli Hecht - Bass + Moog
Katie McCabe - Violin
Justin Rodig - Accordion + Guitar
Bethany Younge - Synthesizers
Raith Brown: Geomancy and Interdimensional Maintenance Supervisor
Production Design by Emily Orling
Projection Design by Piper Hill
Line Produced by Noelle Viñas and Goblin Brain Productions
TRUTH //:
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY REVUE
co-conceived by
Noax and George Strus
Monday 10/21/24 @ Littlefield
Brooklyn, NY
featuring Alaïa, Amanda Tori Meating, Anania Williams, Ari Notartomaso, César Alvarez, Garrett Allen, Justin David Sullivan, Jade Jones aka Litty Official, JMV, Nico Carney, Nora Schell, & ONE (Esco Jouléy)
part of the 2024 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival
Album Release Shows!
Saturday 5/25/24
at Joe’s Pub BUY TIX
9:30 pm
Saturday 5/11/24
Norwich, VT
7pm at 873 Bragg hill rd.
Performing with my brave band:
Bethany Younge, Katie McCabe, Eli Hecht, Tristan O’Shea, Justin Rodig
VT special guests El Beh
NYC Special Guests El Beh, Dante Green, and Anthony Alfaro
Saturday 4/27/24
Brattleboro, VT
at Buoyant Heart Collective
also Featuring Content Clown and OHYOUARE
Performing with my brave band:
Bethany Younge, Katie McCabe, Eli Hecht, Tristan O’Shea, Justin Rodig
Saturday 2/17/24
at Fox Market and Bar
also Featuring Content Clown and OHYOUARE
Performing with my brave band:
Bethany Younge, Katie McCabe, Eli Hecht, Tristan O’Shea, Justin Rodig
3070 US-2, East Montpelier, VT
doors at 6:30
$10 Suggested (no one turned away)
SINGLE RELEASE PARTY
Saturday 11/18/23
I’m releasing the first single off my forthcoming solo album :)
BLM House - 53 Park St
South Royalton, VT
Doors at 6:30
Solo Set at 7
DJ CHELE at 8
BYO
July 27-30, 2023
NOISE
book, music and lyrics by César Alvarez
directed by Sarah Benson
Society is broken. Let's fix it with music, like right now...in this musical.
a HOP Production at Northern Stage
in White River Junction, VT
Tickets on sale May 16 HERE
Soho Rep Spring Fete
May 1, 2023 - 6pm
Honoring Branden Jacobs Jenkins
Directed by Raja Feather Kelly
I’ll be performing the song I wrote for An Octoroon with cast members of the Original 2 productions.
tix - HERE
Playwrights Horizons Gala
March 13, 2023
Ziegfeld Ballroom
141 W 54th St, New York, NY
I’ll be talking about SONDHEIM and performing a song from my musical The Potluck with collaborators Barbara Walsh and El Beh
FUTURITY
in performance….
March 10, 11 and 12, 2023
at College of The Atlantic
Bar Harbor, ME - more info here
March 9, 10 and 11, 2023
at Trinity College
Hartford, CT - more info here
LATIN NIGHT
Friday 2/17/23
Cuban culture in rural VT :)
I’m teaching teach Salsa 7:30-8:30
Rodrigo Martinez is DJing
FREE
Egg
November 13 + 18, 2022
Egg is a performance of songs and live ceramics by César Alvarez and Emily Orling that calls up unthinkable thoughts about creative kinship, small town futurism, trans middle age, mediocre parenting, and the ancient unreliable religion of art making.
Sunday 11/13/22 at 1pm
The Hopkins Center for the Arts (HOP Garage 131)
HOP Open House Art Walk
Hanover NH
FREE
Friday 11/18/22 at 7:30pm
JACK NY
Radical Acts Performance Festival
20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn, NY
TIX HERE ($15)
August 18, 2022
Solo Set at Star Mountain
6:30 Doors
7:00 Brooke Wilkinson
7:30 César Alvarez
8:30 After party
Suggested Donation $5-10
139 Star Mountain Rd
Sharon, VT 05065
The Potluck
at New York Stage and Film
July 29-31, 2022 @ Marist College
Solo Set
@ Untitled Makerspace
May 23, 2022
www.makersensemble.org
Brooklyn, NY
Solo Set @ Selby Gardens
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 6pm
at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota FL