In “We’ve Been Here Before”, singer-songwriter Lindsey Kraft plays the role of Liv, a 40-year codependent about to have a midlife awakening, brought on by an overwhelming urge to write music. Starting with no prior experience, she learns to play piano while beginning a relationship with a secret online confidant. The result is a funny, heartbreaking, and fiercely honest playlist of her life—tackling everything from her father’s addiction to a lifetime of staying quiet. Through raw, original music about family secrets, unspoken truths, and the courage to stand alone, she is led out of woods she didn’t even realize she was in.
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Kraft is joined on stage by Ben Folds, who is also the show’s musical director, and Dan Rudin in her captivating new one-woman musical story about love, loss, and liberation.
ABOUT LINDSEY KRAFT:
Kraft is best known for her 20 years as an actor in TV & film; NETFLIX’s “Gracie and Frankie,” HBO’s “Getting On,” most recently in APPLE TV’s “The Shrink Next Door” opposite Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd, as well as a long list of roles on TV’s biggest shows. Kraft has recently done the “Unheard-Of,” learning piano at the age of 40, composing an impressive body of songs, and performing a few hundred solo piano shows on tour for artists such as Ben Folds. Kraft wrote and composed the music for “We’ve Been Here Before,” chronicling her discovery of music and songwriting as an adult, and the self-honesty that can be learned from brutally honest creativity. In her words, “the songs knew the truth before I did!” Kraft also co-wrote a single on Ben Folds’ 2025 Sleigher holiday album, performing it on Kelly Clarkson, CBS Saturday Morning and WXPN’s World Cafe. She’s also written and co-written a body of plays – “Wedding Bash” was published by Samuel French and performed at NYC’s 59E59 2017 and elsewhere – and written multiple TV pilots for CBS and NBC. Kraft feels she’s only just getting started, currently recording her debut album, looking forward to the future runs of “We’ve Been Here Before” and already composing her second musical.
ABOUT BEN FOLDS:
Ben Folds is an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter and platinum selling artist who has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, a holiday album, and numerous collaborative records. He currently tours as a pop artist, while also performing with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras. A New York Times Best Selling author, Ben also creates new music for film, TV and theatre, including original songs for an ongoing series of animated Peanuts specials on Apple TV. In 2022, he launched a charitable music education initiative in his native state of North Carolina which provides funds and keyboards to existing nonprofits that offer free or affordable piano lessons to school-age children from economically disadvantaged households. For the past 15 years he has also been an outspoken advocate for arts funding, music education and music therapy in the US as a member of Americans For The Arts and the Arts Action Fund.
