Night Side Songs

Writer-composers Daniel and Patrick Lazour and director Taibi Magar, who gave us the aimbitious Arab Spring musical We Live in Cairo in 2024, reunite for a folk-inflected musical inspired by Susan Sontag's contention, in her influencial 1978 treatise Illness as Metaphor, that "illness is the night side of life." The winsome Brooke Ishibashi stars as a Massachusetts woman who discovers an unwelcome mass in her breast, which kicks off a long journey through cancer treatment. Jonathan Raviv and the implacable Mary Testa, who co-starred with Ishibashi in the show's out-of-town premiere last year, return for its Lincoln Center incarnation, which also features Robin De Jesus and Kris Saint-Louis.