Directed by George C. Wolfe with costumes by Karen Perry, set design by Ricardo Hernandez, lighting by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, and Production Managed by Bonnie Metzgar.

In his interview for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote: "Mr. Glover has found choreographic equivalents for the black experience in the days of plantations, urban industrialization, the Harlem Renaissance and latter-day race riots...This sense of flaming individuality is finally what the evening is about: not just the collective history of a race but the diverse and specific forms of expression that one tradition embraces.

"[6] The review in Entertainment Weekly said that the show is "an explosive and bravely literal-minded chronicle of the genre's history from slavery to the present.

The music is beautiful and the dancing exuberant, but Funk is serious business, with vicious, funny send-ups of Uncle Tomism in Hollywood.

"[7] Writing for The New York Times, Margo Jefferson stated that: "as dance, as musical, as theater, as art, as history and entertainment, there's nothing Noise/Funk cannot and should not do.