Jason Robert Brown

A really warm (in both senses of the word) and fun concert tonight in Portland, my first-ever visit to this beautiful city. A great production of Songs for a New World this afternoon, and then a swell sold-out house tonight for a concert and Q & A (with some really good questions!). Thanks to Chandra Hall and all the folks at Staged! PDX and the Milagro Theater, who did a great job putting all of this together on very short notice. All Things In Time I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You The Old Red Hills Of HomeRead More »

You’ve been hired to direct a show. You do all your homework, find a way to tell that story that’s unique to you but comprehensible to the audience, work with your designers to bring that vision to life, cast the actors who most closely resemble the image of those characters in your head, and then… Dear Mr. Brown: I’m currently directing a production of The Last Five Years. It’s a very great process and I’m enjoying it tremendously. However, I have run into a pretty big issue. The pianist is a little iffy in some spots… and overall I’m notRead More »

Fantastic news today – Capital Area Productions’s mounting of 13 was voted the #2 Best arts event in the past year by the readers of the Albany Times-Union. Congratulations to Kristina Kennedy Babcock and the amazing cast (and parents!) for their well-deserved honor! Here’s the link to the Times-Union article announcing the big news. I worked with those kids in January and was just knocked out by how hard they worked, how much they loved the show, and how awesomely talented they were. Special thanks to Corey Snide, who helped choreograph and reprised his Broadway role of Evan Goldman, andRead More »

Andrew Gans’s article here. Jason Robert Brown/Georgia Stitt Concert to Feature Taylor, Trimm, Pulver, Ryder, Chapman, Callaway By Andrew Gans Playbill Online, 07 Jun 2010 The songs of Jason Robert Brown and Georgia Stitt will be presented June 12 at the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, CA. The evening of songs by the husband-and-wife composers will feature the talents of Ty Taylor (Songs for a New World), Allie Trimm (13), Lara Pulver (Parade), Amy Ryder (Damn Yankees), Tracy Nicole Chapman (Caroline, or Change) and Dan Callaway (Phantom of the Opera) as well as a 30-voice choir. Show time for theRead More »

Hello wonderful JRB-ites! I hinted a couple of weeks ago that there would be a very special L.A.-area concert on June 12, and now here are all the details: For the first time, my wife GEORGIA STITT and I are doing a joint concert appearance, as a benefit for Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Because it’s such a rare and special thing for us to do a concert together, we’ve asked a bunch of fantastic singers to join us. Ty Taylor, from the original recording of Songs for a New World will be performing some of that material live with me forRead More »