Jason Robert Brown

Last year, I spent a couple of days with the folks at Missoula Children’s Theatre, working with the kids in their Next Step Program. (You can read about that in this blog entry.) Greg Boris and Jim Caron invited me back to teach as part of this year’s program as well, and Maureen Roy took some swell pictures while I was there. Take a look at the MCT Next Step Prep blog. Thanks to everyone at MCT for taking such good care of me while I was there, and for doing such fantastic work with the students. See you inRead More »

Owen Bennett-Jones at the BBC interviewed me yesterday for the BBC Newshour, since my previous blog about illegal uploading and downloading has gone utterly viral. It’s hardly the most substantive discussion in the world, but if you enjoy this sort of thing: JRB on the BBC, 5 July 2010 And a reminder that you can get a thoroughly unnecessary amount of minutiae about my daily existence if you just follow me on the Twitter thing.

Marty Hughley’s article in The Oregonian here. Composer Jason Robert Brown highlights Portland’s summer of…Jason Robert Brown Published: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 12:33 AM Updated: Thursday, July 01, 2010, 1:23 AM Marty Hughley, The Oregonian “I had always planned, somewhere along the line,” Jason Robert Brown told the audience, “to be Billy Joel.” Jason Robert Brown joked that he was so close to the audience at the Miracle Theatre that he could “collect DNA samples.” His fans didn’t mind the intimate setting. Well, not everyone who wants to be a rock star ends up as one, and Brown’s skills asRead More »

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 »