Andrew R. Butler, Barbara Walsh, and More Join the Cast of New Musical The Potluck

Soho Rep and INTAR Theatre have announced the cast and creative team of their world premiere production of Lortel winner and Guggenheim fellow César Alvarez’s new musical The Potluck, directed by Sarah Benson, starting performances June 30 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons.

The 12-person intergenerational company represents a vast range of artistic disciplines and traditions and includes Tony & the Kiki founder and lead singer Anthony Alfaro as César, El Beh as Jaime and on cello, Jacob Brandt as Jim and on bass and guitar, Andrew R. Butler as Bill and on guitars and Moog, internationally acclaimed percussionist Sammy Figueroa on percussion, Rubén Flores as Dad, 2025 Princess Grace Award winner Dionne McClain-Freeney as Sandi and on keyboards and associate music director, Jessica Lurie on saxophone and flute, Gían Pérez as Cesar and on percussion, Zack Segel as Mike and on percussion, and Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh as Mom.

The creative team includes choreographer Ana Maria Alvarez, music director Alex Bechtel, scenic designer and spiritual advisor Emily Orling, costume designer Qween Jean, lighting designer Mextly Couzin, sound designer Eamon Goodman, video designer Stefania Bulbarella, and props supervisor Maria Feuereisen.

The Potluck reunites Alvarez and Benson for Alvarez’s first full off-Broadway production since Soho Rep and Ars Nova’s presentation of their 2016 Lucille Lortel Award-winning musical Futurity. The Potluck grapples with the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre, in which five labor organizers were murdered at a protest by members of the KKK and American Nazi Party in 1979.

The Potluck is the first show in Soho Rep’s recently-announced Hunger Cycle: three world premiere productions from Soho Rep with signal producing support from Civis Foundation.