{"id":291429,"date":"2026-07-09T15:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:11:08","slug":"lindsey-kraft-ben-folds-musical-weve-been-here-before-will-make-new-york-premiere-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291429\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Kraft-Ben Folds Musical We’ve Been Here Before Will Make New York Premiere Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve Been Here Before:\u00a0A One-Woman Musical has set a New York premiere at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, with performances scheduled for August 4-17.<\/p>\n

The work tracks a 40-year-old woman going through a mid-life “awakening,” which includes a sudden urge to become a songwriter while fostering a relationship with a secret online confidant. The piece has been written by and will star Lindsey Kraft (Grace and Frankie,\u00a0The Shrink Next Door).<\/p>\n

But Kraft will be joined by some heavy hitters. Serving as the musical’s music director will be Ben Folds, the Emmy-nominated pianist and songwriter behind alternative rock group Ben Folds Five. The group’s album’s include\u00a0Whatever and Ever Amen,\u00a0Naked Baby Photos, and\u00a0The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, with popular songs including “Brick,” “Army,”\u00a0and “Song for the Dumped.”<\/p>\n

Folds, who is also producing this premiere, will back Kraft during performances as an onstage musician, alongside Dan Rudin.<\/p>\n

Kraft and Machel Ross<\/a> are co-directing.<\/p>\n

Tickets are at WeveBeenHereBeforeMusical.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve Been Here Before:\u00a0A One-Woman Musical has set a New York premiere at Off-Broadway’s SoHo Playhouse, with performances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-291429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}