NIGHT SIDE SONGS
FEB 21 – MAR 9, 2025
Words and Music by The Lazours
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced in association with the American Repertory Theater
A Soulful Philadelphia Story
Words and Music by The Lazours
Directed by Taibi Magar
Produced in association with the American Repertory Theater
A Soulful Philadelphia Story
A ground-breaking ninety-minute new musical, Night Side Songs explores the intimacy of illness, mortality, and the incredible dignity of caregivers through the story of Yasmine Holly, a fictional character informed by interviews with real doctors, hospital staff, and patients, many from right here in Philadelphia. Night Side Songs is a musical convergence which reflects and celebrates Philly’s “eds and meds” community with humor, grace, and profound empathy. The production will tour local hospitals, community centers, and places of worship for two weeks before its run at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. Directed by Artistic Director Taibi Magar. Night Side Songs is supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
On-Stage Seating Information: Please note that seating for this production will be on-stage. Seating is General Admission within Zones 1, 2, or 3, and seated first-come, first-served. An approximate seating map for this performance will be available at a later date.
Run Time: 1hr 30 minutes with no intermission
Content Warnings: Description(s) of medical procedures, cancer treatments, and caregiving; dramatizations of grief and the loss of a parent; strong language.
Age recommendation: 14 years old and above
This production is supported by
Honorary Producers Linda and David Glickstein
PTC: Debut. Broadway: The Band’s Visit (10 Tony Awards including Best Musical); Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries, NYTW; Monsoon Wedding, St. Ann’s Warehouse; Hound Dog (also with The Lazours), Ars Nova; The Band’s Visit, Atlantic Theater; Selected Regional: Kismet (Hajj), Granada Theatre; Fun Home (Bruce), KC Rep; Into The Woods (Baker), Barrington Stage. TV/Film: “Law & Order”; “NCIS: New Orleans”; “The Blacklist”; “Zero Hour”; “Pan Am”; Minyan; Upcoming: The Friend. Education: Vocal Performance B.F.A., The Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt.
PTC: Debut. Regional: Peter Panto, Off by One, Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Panto, Shakespeare in Love, People’s Light (company member since 1991); Into the Woods, Indecent, Cabaret, Arden Theatre; Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Angels in America, Wilma Theater; Broads, 1812 Productions; A Man for All Seasons, Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Lantern Theater. Also Act II Playhouse (PA), Bristol Riverside Theatre (PA), East Lynne Theatre (NJ), Greta Theatre (PA), Mill Mountain Theatre (VA), NC Shakespeare Festival, Weston Playhouse (VT). Education/Training: M.F.A. in Acting, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
PTC: Debut. Broadway/Tour: Into the Woods. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods, Encores!; Good Person of Szechwan, Public Theater, La MaMa; A Beautiful Day in November, Women’s Project. Regional: Cambodian Rock Band, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, 5th Avenue Theatre/ACT; to the yellow house, La Jolla Playhouse. Workshops: Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by Jason Robert Brown; Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. TV: “People Are Talking” (series lead). Awards: Unions Power America Grand Prize. For JB and Gav. “Don’t miss it.”
PTC: Debut. BROADWAY: Bad Cinderella (Prince Sebastian, OBC), Hadestown (Orpheus), A Beautiful Noise (Shilo, OBC), West Side Story (Tony, directed by Ivo Van Hove). TOUR: Rent Japan Tour (Angel). SELECT REGIONAL: Signature Theatre: Hair; Two River Theatre: Hair; ACT of Connecticut: Austen’s Pride, Into the Woods; Papermill Playhouse: The Wanderer; Arden Theatre Co.: Cabaret, Gypsy; Theatre Horizon: The Color Purple. FILM: Maestro directed by Bradley Cooper (William), Closing Night (Jericho). @jordandobson_.
PTC: Debut. Broadway: Spring Awakening, How to Succeed…, Bye Bye Birdie and Doctor Zhivago. Tour and Regional: Spring Awakening, Fun Home, Jonathan in Tick, Tick…Boom! and others. As a composer, his musical Little Duende was accepted at the O’Neill Center for their ‘21 NMTC, ‘21 NAMT festival, Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, and Lortel 121 project. His other musical Siluetas was also accepted the following year at O’Neill Center’s 2022 NMTC and received a world premiere production in Philadelphia June ‘24. @robihager.
PTC: Debut. Broadway: Death of a Salesman (2022 Revival); Linda Vista. Selected Off-Broadway: Magnificent Bird / Book of Travelers (Playwrights Horizons); Three Houses, The Comeuppance, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Cambodian Rock Band, Octet, Boesman and Lena, and Thom Pain (Signature Theatre); All the Devils Are Here (Octopus Theatricals); Toni Stone (Roundabout); Notes from Now (Prospect Musicals); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Elevator Repair Service); Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard Theatre).
PTC: Debut. Broadway: Purlie Victorious. Off-Broadway: Three Houses, Signature Theatre; Jonah, Roundabout Theatre Company; Scene Partners, Vineyard Theatre; The Harder They Come, The Public Theater; A Sherlock Carol, New World Stages. Regional: Goddess, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Sanctuary City, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Octet, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Swept Away, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Education: Design and Production: Stage Management, University of Northern Iowa.
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. @frereslazour
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.
(Set Design): Recent Off Broadway: Walden (Second Stage), Jordans (Public), FLEX (Lincoln Center) Audelco Award, Catch As Catch Can (Playwright’s Horizons), Daddy (New Group & Vineyard) Drama Desk Award, Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Venus (Signature), Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry & Public). Over 100 regional credits including: Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Wilma Theater and Kennedy Center. Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Saunders is a Pew Fellow and a Hodder Fellow, Princeton University. Associate Professor of Design at Swarthmore College. mattsaundersdesign.net
Off-Broadway: The Appointment (“Best of 2019” – NYTimes, Vulture, TimeOut NY, “Best of 2023” – The New Yorker). Select Regional: Penelope at Signature Theatre D.C. & Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Poor Judge at Pig Iron Theatre Company, three new musical Pantos for People’s Light & Theatre Co, and eight seasons of new music for Shakespeare at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Company Member of Lightning Rod Special. See and hear more at alexbechtel.com
Justin Stasiw is an NYC-based sound designer and engineer. A.R.T./ PTC: Debut. Broadway: Lempicka. Broadway (as Associate): Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice, Frozen, Once on This Island, Anastasia, Something Rotten!, Side Show, It’s Only A Play. Off-Broadway: The Big Gay Jamboree, We Live in Cairo, The View Upstairs, Songbird. Regional: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla), Beatsville (Asolo Rep.), Jasper in Deadland (5th Av.). Justin is a proud member of IATSE and of USA/829
Jason has supported projects on and off Broadway, including Disney’s Aladdin (national tour), Tina the Tina Turner Musical (national tour), Back to the Future the Musical, Hell’s Kitchen (The Public Theatre), Hercules (Disney Theatrical Group), All of Me (The New Group), Criminal Queerness Festival (National Queer Theatre), Packages O’ The Things We Deliver (National Black Theatre), The Devil Wears Prada (West End), The Ring of Fire (RWS Global), A Tender Thing (Barrington Stage).
Amith is a Tony Nominated Lighting Designer who works in Theater, Opera, and Dance. His credits include Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Tony Nom.) and Merrily We Roll Along. Off Broadway: The Public, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Atlantic, and The Signature. Regional Theaters: Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, The Geffen, and The Huntington. Opera: The Glimmerglass Festival, Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera. Dance: Staatstheater Nuremberg, The Lyon Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet of New Zealand, The Joyce, and The National Dance Company of Wales. He is the recipient of The Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards; Union Trustee for United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE; MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and faculty at The University of Maryland’s School for Theatre Dance and Performance Studies.
Broadway: All In, Romeo and Juliet, Stereophonic, Illinoise, An Enemy of the People, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Slave Play, Is This a Room & Dana H, What the Constitution Means to Me. Film: Good One, The Front Room (A24), Omni Loop (2am Films), Rocky’s Deli (Ben Cohen) What the Constitution Means to Me (Amazon Prime). Artios Award. TaylorWilliamsCasting.com