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Explore the themes of Night Side Songs with these artworks on view at the Harvard Art Museums.

“[Night Side Songs] becomes an incredibly emotional, moving experience, because every single person in life has had some loss or someone who was ill,” [said actress Mary Testa].

“It’s about what it is to go through that illness journey, but it’s also a celebration of caretakers, and both the professional ones, doctors, nurses, but also the family and friends,” [Director Taibi] Magar said.

“Illness connects us all,” [said Patrick Lazour]. “I think by considering it, hopefully we can appreciate life’s smallest pleasures even more by all being brave together in the same room and bearing witness to this journey of our protagonist.”

“It’s an interesting, I think, mixture of communal singing and a communal grieving event in some ways, but also a communal celebration of life and togetherness,” [said] Brooke Ishibashi.

It took several years to refine the form, story, and music into this genre-breaking, musical-theater experience.