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American Repertory Theater News - Spotlight on Night Side Songs
Arts and Entertainment
August 14, 2024
From: American Repertory TheaterSpotlight on Night Side Songs
A Communal Music-Theater Experience
A communal music-theater experience performed for-and with-an intimate audience, 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) and Lortel Award-winning director Taibi Magar (The Half-God of Rainfall, We Live in Cairo) fuses story and song to take us on a journey through illness that brings us closer to life.
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Preview the Music
“Santa Cruz”
The Lazours have been developing Night Side Songs for many years, including a virtual discussion with A.R.T. audiences in 2021 and a workshop in Cambridge in 2023. Watch Daniel Lazour perform “Santa Cruz,” one of the songs written for the show, in 2022.
Boylston Brothers’ We Live in Cairo Set for Off-Broadway
Get to Know the Lazours
Worcester Magazine
Daniel and Patrick Lazour started writing We Live in Cairo in 2013, when they were 19 and 23, respectively. The staged reading at New York Theatre Workshop in 2017 helped lead to its world premiere at American Repertory Theater. The run was a success, with the show being extended for a week, and the relationship between the theater and the brothers has continued.
In Conversation with Director Taibi Magar
On the Space Between Storyteller and Listener
In the lead up to her fourth production with A.R.T., The Half-God of Rainfall, Director Taibi Magar sat down for an interview with the A.R.T. “For me, the simple act of storytelling is really interesting,” she said. “It’s an ancient relationship: for thousands of years, we’ve been sitting around the fire telling each other stories. I’m always trying to capture that live, imaginative place between performer and audience.”