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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

PATRICK LAZOUR
ONE OF THE SHOW’S WRITERS
STEPS INTO THE ROLE OF
PLAYER 2, DR. VERLAINE’
IN
“NIGHT SIDE SONGS”
A NEW MUSICAL
AT LCT3’S CLAIRE TOW THEATER
AT SELECT PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK

HEADSHOT AVAILABLE HERE

New York, NY (March 12, 2026) – Lincoln Center Theater announced today that Patrick Lazour, one of the show’s writers, will step into the role of ‘Player 2, Dr. Verlaine’ of the new musical Night Side Songs at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater (150 W 65^th Street), throughout this week. Lazour fills in for Robin de Jesús, who originated the role and is currently out due to his mother’s passing following a valiant journey with ALS, and the previously announced Taylor Trensch (Floyd Collins, Camelot, Dear Evan Hansen) who has also been covering the role on select performances. de Jesús is scheduled to return to Saturday, March 14.

To download Patrick Lazour’s headshot, please click here.
To download Taylor Trensch’s headshot, please click here.

Written by acclaimed duo, The Lazours, who are reuniting with Lortel and Obie Award-winning director Taibi Magar, Night Side Songs stars Robin de Jesús as ‘Player 2, Dr. Verlaine,’ Brooke Ishibashi as ‘Player 4, Yasmine,’ Jonathan Raviv as ‘Player 3, Frank,’ Kris Saint-Louis as ‘Player 1, Nurse Isaac.’ and Mary Testa as ‘ Player 5, Desirée.’

To download production photos, click here.
To download a b-roll montage, click here.

To watch and download the recently released music video of “Miracle Song,” performed
by Tony Award® nominee Robin de Jesús, in his first solo number ever in a musical in New York City, please click HERE.

The creative team for Night Side Songs includes Alex Bechtel (Music Direction), Matt Saunders (Set Design), Jason Goodwin (Costume Design), Amith Chandrashaker (Lighting Design), Justin Stasiw (Sound Design), Taylor Williams and The Telsey Office (Casting), and Elizabeth Emanuel (Stage Manager), with the score developed with Madeline Benson.

Tickets are currently on sale at LCT.org.

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.

Night Side Songs originated in a world 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.

Night Side Songs is supported by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Judith Champion Playwrights’ Vision Fund and Mel Litoff, and the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

Support for LCT3 is provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation, the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, and members of the LCT3 Council.

Endowment support for LCT3 is provided by Daryl Roth, James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, and The Judith Champion Playwrights’ Vision Fund and Mel Litoff.

Season Support is generously provided by Daryl Roth, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and American Airlines.

The 2025 – 2026 LCT3 season is dedicated to Leonard Tow, whose leadership, generosity, and vision helped shape LCT3.

BIOGRAPHIES

Patrick Lazour is a music theatre writer. Alongside his brother and collaborator Daniel Lazour, his original musicals include We Live in Cairo (Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk nominee, American Repertory Theater, New York Theater Workshop, dir. Taibi Magar) and Night Side Songs (Under the Radar, Philadelphia Theater Company, American Repertory Theater, dir. Taibi Magar). Together, the Lazours are also writing a musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox (Berkeley Repertory Theater 2026) and wrote original songs for Caroline Lindy’s feature, Your Monster (Sundance 2023, Audience Award). Their movie musical Mikaela Wills & The Teacher in Space is being developed with Bruce Cohen Productions and Spark Features. Original songs can be heard on their independently released albums: Two Short Songs in a Minor Key, Lullabies, Freres, Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo) and Beth’s Homemade Cowboy Breakfast. The Lazours are Jonathan Larson Grant and Richard Rodgers Award recipients, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellows, and New York Theater Workshop Usual  Suspects. Patrick holds a B.A. from Boston College.

ABOUT LINCOLN CENTER THEATER

LCT’s mission is to bring exceptional theater to life. Building on a legacy of artistic excellence, LCT strives to expand what is possible: to make the magic of theatre more palpable, empowering visionary artists and extending the invitation for the community to join in celebrating the power of live performance. To see that mission to fruition in a new era at the New York institution, commencing with the current 2025-2026 season, Lear deBessonet assumed the role of Kewsong Lee Artistic Director, alongside Managing Director Mike Schleifer, Executive Producer Barlett Sher, Stacey and Eric Mindich Producer Nicole Kastrinos, Executive Director of Development and Planning Naomi Grabel, and LCT3 Artistic Director and Producer Maria Manuela Goyanes.

Following the season launch on July 30, 2025 with the free Silent Disco Listening Party of the Warriors concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, deBessonet opened her inaugural season at the Vivian Beaumont Theater with a new production of her celebrated New York City Center Gala revival of Ragtime, the American premiere of the 2025 Olivier Award-nominated play Kyoto and the family opera Amahl and the Night Visitors at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and The Comedy Series with LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theater, and most recently An Evening with Kelli O’Hara in January at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The season also includes upcoming productions of The Whoopi Monologues at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater; Night Side Songs, A Woman Among Women and The Reading Series with LCT3 at the Claire Tow Theater; as well one special gala concert presentation of Man of La Mancha at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Founded in 1985 by Board Chair Hon. John V. Lindsay, Executive Producer Bernie Gersten and Director Gregory Mosher, and led for 33 years by André Bishop, LCT is one of the leading nonprofit theaters in the country, producing an annual season of plays and musicals that have been seen by millions around the globe. It is one of 11 autonomous constituents of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Each year, the three theaters that make up LCT welcome nearly 300,000 audience members to its home on the Lincoln Center campus.

Over the last 40 years, LCT and its outstanding productions have received many of the highest accolades, including 87 Tony Awards, 97 Drama Desk Awards, 79 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 33 Obies, 11 NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, and one Pulitzer Prize, as well as two finalists.

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