NIGHT SIDE SONGS

About the show

Not seeing the seats you want? Check back closer to the performance, or join our cancellation line in-person at Lincoln Center Theater beginning 1 hour before the performance. NIGHT SIDE SONGS is a transformative new musical that gathers us in the space where life shifts, suddenly and irrevocably, and asks how we move through it. With a stirring folk score by the acclaimed duo The Lazours (We Live in Cairo) and visionary direction by Taibi Magar (Macbeth In Stride), NIGHT SIDE SONGS traces the reverberations that ripple between life’s defining moments: the conversations by the bedside, the hopes whispered or withheld, the jokes that break tension, the silences that linger. It’s about those drawn into the orbit of someone’s life - family, friends, strangers - reaching for one another in ways both imperfect and profound. What emerges is not just a portrait of care, but of connection: how we grasp onto each other, onto faith or doubt, onto memory, meaning, music. The things that help us endure. Sometimes alone. Often together. NIGHT SIDE SONGS is a testament to the fragile, fierce humanity that carries us through the night and to the healing that can happen when we truly listen. This production originated in a NY premiere co-production between American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and Philadelphia Theatre Company, following a commission by American Repertory Theater. The show was further developed and presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the Under the Radar Festival.