Jason Robert Brown

I have been associated with New York Musical Festival (NYMF) in the past, and therefore I feel a certain responsibility to make sure that they are held accountable for detestable practices and abuses. NYMF has asked all the writers in this year’s festival to sign a contract in order to participate. The following letter from the Dramatists Guild explains the problems from there: From the DRAMATISTS GUILD June 3, 2010 Dear Guild members, You may have heard that there is considerable controversy surrounding the 2010 NYMF contract. After analyzing it, it is clear to us that NYMF has made significantRead More »

A really fun sold-out show tonight at the Roustabout Theatre’s home in the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa, CA. Amy Ryder sang even more beautifully than she did twenty years ago when I first met her, and the kids in the Apprentice Program did a fantastic job with some very difficult music. One more show tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 pm! Details here. It was tough putting the set list together for this one because the choir had learned five songs and two of them were opening numbers and three of them were finales! I think I came up withRead More »

Stop kvetching! It’s a beautiful day in May, and I’ve got concerts coming up! The fantastic and enterprising Roustabout Theater in Santa Rosa, California, is bringing me out for a fun-filled weekend, and I hope you’ll come join us! On Saturday, MAY 22 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, MAY 23 at 3 pm, I’ll be taking the stage at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts with a choir from the Roustabout Apprentice Program as well as my old friend and muse, AMY RYDER. We’ll be doing lots of stuff from all of my shows, as well as a wholeRead More »

There are days when I’m feeling sort of unappreciated and frustrated by the business and now when I have those days, I will have the majesty of Seth. Señor Rudetsky, you are my Hebrew hero.

Go on, look up there at the title of this post. Look at that. Is that a thing of beauty? I am very proud of that subject line, people. For all four of my shows at Birdland in March, I am being joined by the magnificent ANIKA NONI ROSE, diva of the stage (Tony Award winner for Caroline, Or Change and star of the 2008 revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), television (star of HBO’s The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency), movies (Dreamgirls), and, according to my four-year-old daughter, easily the coolest person that has ever stepped footRead More »