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SoHo Rep Will Stage World Premiere Musical, Play, and Site-Specific Immersive Folk Tale With The Hunger Cycle

All exploring the theme of hungering for something, the three productions will make their debuts across three seasons.

March 09, 2026 By Meg Masseron

César Alvarez

Off-Broadway's SoHo Rep will stage The Hunger Cycle across three seasons, featuring the world premiere of three new works thematically exploring the question: "what are we hungry for?"  The cycle includes a new musical, a play, and a site-specific immersive folk tale.

Featured first will be César Alvarez's The Potluck in a co-production with INTAR Theatre. Directed by Sarah Benson, the new musical featuring a 12-person intergenerational cast began as a commission to write a musical about the Greensboro Massacre, but it turned into a show about ghosts, capitalism, and how to recuperate from trauma that happened to you before you were even born. The Potluck will be staged this season, with dates to be announced. 

Madeline Easley’s Feast for the Dead will premiere next season. Featuring a nine person cast, the play dives into the violence upon which this nation was born, and the illusions we build to hide the fact that we are being eaten. 

The final piece in the cycle will be the Soho Rep-commissioned devised theatre collective Radical Evolution’s Hunger, an immersive, site-specific show that transports audiences into a fable that explores physical, spiritual, and communal hunger and how those feelings remind us to reconnect with each other and the natural world as a means of healing ourselves and the planet.

The Hunger Cycle is being supported by the Civis Foundation. Support for Feast for the Dead comes from Venturous and support for The Potluck comes from the Miranda Family Fund.

For more information, visit SohoRep.org.

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