Night Side Songs
Presented by Lincoln Center
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A new communal music-theater experience performed for and with an intimate audience.
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.” – Susan Sontag
Night Side Songs gives voice to doctors, patients, researchers, and caregivers to meld the realms of the well and the sick. This genre-breaking theatrical kaleidoscope by Richard Rodgers Award recipients Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour (We Live in Cairo, Flap My Wings) fuses story and song to take us on a journey through illness that brings us closer to life.
Produced in association with American Repertory Theater and Philadelphia Theatre Company.
Note: This production contains discussion of terminal illness. It is recommended for audiences 15 years and older.
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, January 14 @ 7:30 pm
Wednesday, January 15 @ 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 16 @ 7:30 pm
Friday, January 17 @ 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 18 @ 3:00 pm
Saturday, January 18 @ 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 19 @ 3:00 pm
Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes
VENUE
Lincoln Center, The Clark Studio Theater
165 West 65th Street
New York, New York 10023
The Clark Studio Theater is located on the 7th floor of the Rose Building on West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. To reach the Rose Building, take the stairs, elevator, or escalator from street level to plaza level, on the north side of the street.
Access:
Accessible to wheelchair users; Accessible restrooms and accessible routes; FM assistive listening devices with headsets and neck loops; Noise-reducing headphones, fidgets and sensory items. If you require any additional accommodations, please contact [email protected] or 212-875-5375.
CREDITS
Words and Lyrics by the Lazours
Directed by Taibi Magar
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Daniel and Patrick Lazour are brothers and music theater writers. Projects in development include a musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox (Lincoln Center Theater) and their show with communal singing, Night Side Songs (Under the Radar, A.R.T./PTC co-production). They wrote original music for Caroline Lindy’s debut feature Your Monster (Sundance 2024) and their movie musical Challenger: An American Dream is being developed with Bruce Cohen Productions and Spark Features. Their original musical We Live in Cairo makes its off-Broadway premiere this Fall at New York Theater Workshop after a world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in 2019, directed by Taibi Magar. Original songs by the Lazours can be heard on their independently released albums: Freres, Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo), Beth’s Homemade Cowboy Breakfast and Lullabies. They are Jonathan Larson Grant and Richard Rodgers Award recipients, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellows, and New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspects. They have worked with Noor Theatre Company, Ars Nova and PAC NYC, and are proud teaching artists. Patrick holds a B.A. from Boston College and Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
Taibi Magar is an Artistic Director of Philadelphia Theatre Company. As a freelance director, her most recent credits are We Live in Cairo (A.R.T. world premiere, upcoming at New York Theatre Workshop), The Half-God of Rainfall (New York Theatre Workshop and A.R.T.), Macbeth in Stride (co-direction with Tyler Dobrowsky), Help (The Shed), and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature Theatre and A.R.T., Lortel Award Best Revival). Other New York credits include Capsule by Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall (Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater, co-directed with Tyler Dobrowsky), Blue Ridge starring Marin Ireland and The Great Leap starring BD Wong (Atlantic Theater Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep, 2018 Obie Award;) Master (The Foundry); and Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova, Obie Award). Regional: CTG, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Alley Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, and Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others. International: Hamburg Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Malthouse Theatre (Melbourne), and Soho Theatre (London). MFA: Brown University.
CREATION + FUNDING
Support for the development of Night Side Songs was provided by The Bob and Alison Murchison New Work Development Fund.
Major support for Lincoln Center Presents is provided by the Shubert Foundation. Additional support is provided by Park Lane New York and Fairfield by Marriott Central Park. NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center. United is the Preferred Airline of Lincoln Center Presents. Steinway & Sons is the Preferred Piano Partner of Lincoln Center.
