All In: A Night for Patrick brings Broadway performers, live music, and comedy to North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly on Monday, August 24, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The evening supports Patrick Wetson, a 10-year-old from Hamilton, Massachusetts. Patrick is facing a brain tumor diagnosis. Additionally, the night supports his mother, Erin, and his sister, Camilla. Broadway actor Jake Ryan Flynn hosts. Tickets are $35 for general admission. Meanwhile, students, seniors, veterans, and teachers pay $20. Both are available through the North Shore Music Theatre box office. The night is presented in partnership with Patrick’s Pack, the community effort supporting the Wetson family. Organizers describe a lineup of Broadway performers, exceptional local talent, and surprises throughout the evening. Every ticket helps make a difference.
Here’s the part that doesn’t show up on the ticket page. We got to this four days before curtain — later than we’d like. Meanwhile, Carol Lavoie Schuster had been at it far longer. For years, this Creative Collective member has quietly built the connections that make a night like this possible. Frankly, that’s how most of the good ones reach us: through someone who was already paying attention.
When is All In: A Night for Patrick, and what do tickets cost?
The benefit runs Monday, August 24, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Specifically, it takes place at North Shore Music Theatre, 54 Dunham Road, Beverly, Massachusetts.
Tickets are $35 for general admission and $20 for students, seniors, veterans, and teachers. Additionally, a $6 per-ticket handling fee applies to online and phone orders. However, single tickets bought in person at the box office carry no fee. Therefore, buying at the window sends more of your money where you intended. First, though, you have to be driving past Dunham Road anyway.
The box office number is 978.232.7200. You can also find the evening on our community events calendar.
Who is Jake Ryan Flynn, and why is he hosting?
Jake Ryan Flynn is a Broadway actor who grew up in Hamilton-Wenham — the same community Patrick calls home.
Specifically, Flynn made his Broadway debut in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and went on to appear in Mrs. Doubtfire. His regional credits include Singin’ in the Rain, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot, and Shrek. Furthermore, he began his career on this exact stage. In 2014, he appeared in North Shore Music Theatre’s A Christmas Carol. Then, he was just a kid from a few towns over.
Consequently, Monday is a homecoming twice over. Flynn returns to the stage that started him, in service of a family from the town that raised him.
How All In: A Night for Patrick came together
This is the thread nobody has published, and it’s worth pulling.
In April 2025, Flynn returned to North Shore Music Theatre for his debut one-man show, Being Alive. That performance was itself a fundraiser — for theater programs in the Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District. At the time, Flynn served as student ambassador for the Hamilton Wenham Edfund.
Meanwhile, the Edfund’s co-president is Carol Lavoie Schuster.
As a result, none of this is luck. A Broadway actor is hosting a benefit for a 10-year-old two towns over. Moreover, someone spent years connecting a regional theater, a school district, and a local foundation. Then a family needed help. Consequently, the connections were already there.
That’s what infrastructure looks like before anyone calls it that.
What to expect at the North Shore Music Theatre benefit
North Shore Music Theatre is the largest operating regional theater in New England. Furthermore, it’s one of the few remaining theatre-in-the-round stages in the country. Practically, that means there’s no back of the house. Every seat faces the same stage from a different angle, and the room can see itself.
For a night built on turnout, that shape matters. The same stage closes Rock of Ages on August 23, which puts this benefit on the very next night.
The program is structured as a variety night rather than a gala. Expect comedy, live music, Broadway performers, and what organizers are describing only as surprises. Notably, it isn’t a black-tie fundraiser and it isn’t a telethon. It’s two hours of a room showing up loudly for one family. For more of the region’s comedy and performance scene, see our coverage of improv comedy in Marblehead and the Beverly Fringe Festival.
How else can you help Patrick Wetson’s family?
Not everyone can reach Beverly on a Monday evening in late August. Fortunately, a ticket isn’t the only useful thing you have.
Buy a seat you can’t use. Someone else fills it, and the support lands either way.
Send this to three people. For a benefit with a short runway, reach is everything. Specifically, put it in front of someone who hadn’t heard. A forwarded text beats a like.
Look up Patrick’s Pack. The community effort around the Wetson family predates this event and continues after it. Notably, it’s the quiet, unglamorous kind of support. Furthermore, that’s the kind that matters once an event night ends.
Frequently asked questions
When is All In: A Night for Patrick?
The benefit takes place Monday, August 24, 2026, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. Specifically, it runs at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts. The venue sits at 54 Dunham Road. Doors and seating follow the theater’s standard concert-event process.
How much are tickets?
General admission is $35. Students, seniors, veterans, and teachers pay $20. Additionally, a $6 handling fee applies to online and phone orders. However, single tickets bought in person at the box office carry no fee.
Who is Patrick Wetson?
Patrick is a 10-year-old from Hamilton, Massachusetts, who is facing a brain tumor diagnosis. He lives with his mother, Erin, and his sister, Camilla. Patrick’s Pack is the community effort formed to support the family.
Who is hosting the event?
Broadway actor Jake Ryan Flynn hosts. He grew up in Hamilton-Wenham. Furthermore, he began performing at North Shore Music Theatre in 2014. On Broadway, he appeared in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mrs. Doubtfire.
Did Creative Collective organize this event?
No. North Shore Music Theatre presents the evening in partnership with Patrick’s Pack. Meanwhile, Creative Collective is simply sharing it. A member brought it to us, and filling that room is the useful thing to do.
Two hours, one stage, one full house
Creative Collective didn’t organize this event, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Instead, we’re sharing it the way we share most things. Someone in our community asked. Furthermore, a room in Beverly should be full on Monday night.
Essex County works this way more often than people notice. For instance, a regional theater, a school foundation, and a Broadway actor turn out to be connected already. So do a neighborhood and a family in a hard year. It’s the same instinct that fills Beverly Homecoming every summer. Creative Collective sits at that intersection most days. Occasionally the connections become visible, and Monday is one of those nights.
Two hours. One stage in Beverly. One kid from Hamilton who should get to look out at a full house — and another one who knows exactly what that view looks like.
We’ll see you Monday.
All In: A Night for Patrick takes place Monday, August 24, 2026, 6:00–8:00 PM at North Shore Music Theatre, 54 Dunham Road, Beverly. Tickets are $35 general admission and $20 for students, seniors, veterans, and teachers, available through the NSMT box office.
About the author: John Andrews is Founder & President of Creative Collective, covering small business, arts, and community across Essex County. He works alongside Carol Lavoie Schuster through Creative Collective’s member community, which is how this event reached us.
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