THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 It’s holiday time!  Let’s fling our masks aside with joyous abandon and celebrate (as long as you’ve got a second mask on underneath). Over here at JRBHQ, I’m celebrating a bunch of exciting things: My new Broadway show, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, starring the extraordinary Billy Crystal, begins previews atRead More »

Four hundred and seventy-four days. I did a show in Los Angeles on March 9, 2020, and I didn’t perform in front of a live audience again for four hundred and seventy-four days. I was in Toronto in the middle of May, doing pre-production work on the movie of 13, when Jennifer Ashley Tepper at 54 BelowRead More »

This morning – nineteen years after I first wrote down a list of characters including “Evan Goldman” and “Archie” and “Patrice”; eighteen years after Dan Elish and I started writing a show about those characters; thirteen years after that show premiered on Broadway and begat a novel published by HarperCollins, nine years after that showRead More »

Over the next several months, I’m going to be able to tell you lots of things about the movie of “13” that we’re currently rehearsing in Toronto. I’ll be able to tell you what songs we kept and how many new ones I added, I’ll be able to talk about how the characters have evolvedRead More »

The night that New York City went into lockdown, March 16, was to have been the 58th concert in my monthly residency at SubCulture, a series that has given me so much joy and fostered so much creativity and collaboration over the past five years that I can scarcely imagine my artistic life without it.Read More »