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# “Hear the Roar of Racism” in Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise at The Public Theater
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/hear-roar-racism-suzan-lori-parks-white-noise-the-public-theater/
- Published: 2019-04-02T17:17:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:08:45.000Z
- Description: This fierce new play examines what happens when the unspoken and unspeakable come head to head. Now playing through May 5, 2019.
- Author: The Public Theater
- Tags: Announcement, Event Announcement, New York, The Public Theater, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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Photo Credit Joan Marcus

Following her critically-acclaimed trilogy *Father Comes Home from the Wars* *(Parts 1, 2 & 3),* playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (*Topdog/Underdog*, *In The Blood*) returns with a world premiere play about race, friendship, and our rapidly unraveling social contract in [*White Noise*](http://bit.ly/2CGnLr2?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*

Long-time friends and lovers Leo, Misha, Ralph, and Dawn are educated, progressive, cosmopolitan, and woke. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides extreme measures must be taken for self-preservation.

> “Radical, Brilliant & Eviscerating. Daveed Diggs crackles with incredible energy!” – New York Magazine  
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> “An elegant work from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog”.” –*The New York Times*

[*White Noise*](http://bit.ly/2CGnLr2?ref=hyperallergic.com) features Daveed Diggs, Sheria Irving, Thomas Sadoski, and Zoë Winters. Written by Suzan-Lori Parks and Directed by Oskar Eustis.

**Show dates have been extended through May 5, 2019.**

**Access $30 tickets by using the code hyper20 at** [**publictheater.org**](http://bit.ly/2CGnLr2?ref=hyperallergic.com) **or by calling 212-967-7555.**