Jason Robert Brown

I have known for a while that there are websites where you can essentially download sheet music for free, and I am certainly aware that a lot of the sheet music being downloaded in that manner was written by me. While my wife Georgia has written extensively about this problem, I have tended to sit back, certain that anything I do would just be the tiniest drop in a very large bucket. But about a month ago, I was seized by the idea to try an experiment. I signed on to the website that is most offensive to me, gotRead More »

We’ve been together for ten years, but Georgia and I have never done a concert of our own work together, largely because I was sure that we’d end up divorced afterwards. Finally, however, we determined to give it a try, and I’m enormously relieved to say it was not only a huge success artistically and financially for the church, but a very emotionally gratifying and powerful evening for us both. It was fantastic as well that we had so many incredible friends on stage and in the audience to share it with us. I turned forty years old eight daysRead More »

A really warm (in both senses of the word) and fun concert tonight in Portland, my first-ever visit to this beautiful city. A great production of Songs for a New World this afternoon, and then a swell sold-out house tonight for a concert and Q & A (with some really good questions!). Thanks to Chandra Hall and all the folks at Staged! PDX and the Milagro Theater, who did a great job putting all of this together on very short notice. All Things In Time I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You The Old Red Hills Of HomeRead More »

You’ve been hired to direct a show. You do all your homework, find a way to tell that story that’s unique to you but comprehensible to the audience, work with your designers to bring that vision to life, cast the actors who most closely resemble the image of those characters in your head, and then… Dear Mr. Brown: I’m currently directing a production of The Last Five Years. It’s a very great process and I’m enjoying it tremendously. However, I have run into a pretty big issue. The pianist is a little iffy in some spots… and overall I’m notRead More »

Fantastic news today – Capital Area Productions’s mounting of 13 was voted the #2 Best arts event in the past year by the readers of the Albany Times-Union. Congratulations to Kristina Kennedy Babcock and the amazing cast (and parents!) for their well-deserved honor! Here’s the link to the Times-Union article announcing the big news. I worked with those kids in January and was just knocked out by how hard they worked, how much they loved the show, and how awesomely talented they were. Special thanks to Corey Snide, who helped choreograph and reprised his Broadway role of Evan Goldman, andRead More »