Jason Robert Brown

This site’s been up for over a decade now, and in that time, we’ve been posting lots of songs and snippets for your collective enjoyment. Here’s a quick roundup of where you can find all the music we’ve put online so far: from The Bridges of Madison County Another Life, Shoshana Bean (demo, 2012) State Fair/Who We Are And Who We Want To Be, Will Collyer, Nina Herzog, Jason Robert Brown & Kelli O’Hara (demo, 2012) One Second And A Million Miles, Andrew Samonsky & Elizabeth Stanley (promotional recording, 2015) from Songs for a New World: The New World/On TheRead More »

Sierra Boggess was supposed to be the first guest to join me in the SubCulture residency. In January 2015, we had announced the show, sold tickets, and rehearsed all the numbers – and then came The Blizzard. A massive winter storm caused the mayor to shut down public transportation in New York City, and once that happened, Marc and I realized we had to cancel the show.  Alas, from that night onward, Sierra became unavailable for the better part of two years – among other things, she starred in School of Rock on Broadway and then headed off to Paris toRead More »

Theater Under The Stars, Houston TX, January 20, 2017 Jewish Community Center for Greater Columbus, Columbus OH, January 21. 2017 Hope The Old Red Hills of Home from Parade King of the World from Songs for a New World I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes It All Fades Away from The Bridges of Madison County Cassandra from The Connector Fifty Years Long I Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas Christmas Lullaby from Songs for a New World Wondering from The Bridges of Madison County A Song About Your Gun Invisible [Columbus only:Read More »

We could talk about the exquisite sensitivity and inescapable humanity of Kelli O’Hara singing “Christmas Lullaby,” a song which she said she couldn’t believe she hadn’t sung before… …or the crystalline brilliance of her performances from The Bridges of Madison County, recreated here with such defining authority… …or we could discuss the glories of this amazing orchestra, eleven wonderful musicians who commit to this music with such passion and command that they break my heart and fill it at the same time… …or we could even talk about Randy getting stuck in the corner again… …but let’s face it, allRead More »

There has been such a sense of loss pervading 2016, so many icons of our culture gone, so much debased and distorted in our sense of ourselves as a nation, so much that is uncertain and uncontained in the world. I am choosing, in these last days of this exhausting and often unkind year, to focus on the fact that I have been able to make music with so many extraordinary people. Finding a shared space with other musicians is the thing that makes me feel like there is a way forward – a conversation, a collaboration. Thank you toRead More »