Jason Robert Brown

Thanks to Mark Kennedy of the Associated Press, who has named the Second Stage Theatre production of The Last Five Years as one of the ten best-in-theater of 2013. I am so proud of this production and so grateful for the way it has been received. Here’s what the AP writes: “The Last Five Years:” A revival of Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle about a troubled marriage was a highlight of Second Stage Theatre’s last season. But if you missed it, look out for a movie version soon with “Smash” star Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick from “Up in theRead More »

I do not want these names to be forgotten. I want them sung and spoken and remembered. It has been one year. Nothing is different. What is broken cannot be fixed, but we have to remember that it broke. Click here to view or download the piano/vocal score of “Twenty-Six Names.”

This is the first in what I’m presuming will be a series of videos in which the creative team of The Bridges of Madison County discusses the inspirations and aspirations of the show. Here’s me competing with myself by yammering away while I’m simultaneously singing and playing “It All Fades Away” at a recent concert at 54 Below. You can see Gary Sieger strumming madly away behind me, but you’ll also hear Jamie Eblen on percussion and Randy Landau on bass. Previews start January 17th and the show opens February 20th!

An extraordinary week at 54 Below with the Caucasian Rhythm Kings (featuring a new drummer, the irritatingly youthful Jamie Eblen), guest fiddlist Todd Reynolds, three amazing guest singers – Morgan Karr, Whitney Bashor and Dan’yelle Robinson – and the two thrilling winners of the 2012 JRB Karaoke Contest, ERIN MARTINEZ and LYNN SHORE. (Here’s a lovely article from Arkansas’s Sync Weekly about Erin and the contest.) These were my first concerts in over a year and so I wanted to have a good mix of old and new material, and also preview my two new shows (The Bridges of MadisonRead More »

One week from today, I’ll be starting a run at the super-classy 54 Below in Manhattan, and I hope you’ll come see it! (Last year, Stephen Holden seemed to like it.) Shows are on Monday, November 18 (7 pm) Wednesday, November 20 (7 pm) Thursday, November 21 (7 pm) Friday, November 22 (8 pm AND 11 pm) Saturday, November 23 (8 pm AND 11 pm) There’s me, JASON ROBERT BROWN, at the piano and howling! There’s the Caucasian Rhythm Kings: GARY SIEGER on the guitar, RANDY LANDAU on the bass, JAMIE EBLEN on the drums, and (on 11/20, 22 &Read More »