Jason Robert Brown

That’s right, people, I’m bringing my show to NYC’s newest theatrical hot spot, 54 Below, Broadway’s Nightclub, for seven performances, September 11-15! To celebrate my first time at this great club, I’m dragging along the unbelievable Shoshana Bean and a ridiculous band to rock out in style! Featuring music from Honeymoon In Vegas and The Bridges of Madison County as well as my perpetually-forthcoming solo album (in addition to the usual favorites)! Ticket information here! 54 BELOW 254 West 54th Street, Cellar New York, NY 10019 For tickets, call TicketWeb.com at (866) 468-7619 For more information and questions please callRead More »

I don’t even know how to describe the joy of this past week in London. Getting to watch 13 come to life on the West End with a cast of young, gloriously gifted actors was such a gift, such a blessing to me; but then to follow that with tonight’s concert, where seven hundred people gathered at the Apollo Theatre – the same theatre where Olivier starred in Journey’s End – to hear seventy students, three amazing singers and a ten-piece orchestra bring seventeen of my songs beautifully to life, that … well, I have no words for that. IRead More »

Mark Shenton’s original review can be found here. 13, a new musical The Stage, Published Thursday 23 August 2012 at 10:54 by Mark Shenton Jason Robert Brown’s Parade has been produced at the Donmar and Southwark Playhouse, and The Last Five Years at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in a series of Sunday night performances at the Haymarket. But it’s a remarkable fact that the London premiere of 13, his 2008 Broadway musical that features a cast of 13 13-year-olds, marks his longest West End run yet, though in fact it’s only running for four nights and six performances. Where’sRead More »

I’m having a moment. I stood on the stage of the Apollo Theatre tonight where they were loading in the set for the first musical I’ve ever directed, the musical that opens in three days on the West End with a group of young genius pain-in-the-ass performers that I love very much and a team of designers and staff that has been so unbelievably supportive of my “vision” (whatever that may be) and so gifted at translating it into their own amazing artistic languages, and I thought of the ridiculous journey of this ridiculous show that has brought me suchRead More »

To my delight, there are two big productions of Songs for a New World playing this weekend.  In London, there is the National Youth Music Theatre production at the Bridewell, directed by Sarah Redmond (who played Woman 2 in the 2001 British premiere of the show). And in New York, the York Theatre Company and Patricia Hoag Simon are presenting a “lab production” at the Theatre at Saint Peter’s off-Broadway. The cool thing about the production at the York is that it’s sharing a set with the extremely well-received revival of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s revue Closer ThanRead More »