Jason Robert Brown

THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 It’s holiday time!  Let’s fling our masks aside with joyous abandon and celebrate (as long as you’ve got a second mask on underneath). Over here at JRBHQ, I’m celebrating a bunch of exciting things: My new Broadway show, MR. SATURDAY NIGHT, starring the extraordinary Billy Crystal, begins previews at the Nederlander Theater on March 1 and opens March 31. All the information you need is right here at this site, and I’m so excited to have a show on Broadway again! On December 11, I’m back at New York’s FEINSTEIN’S/54 BELOW for another wonderfulRead More »

Four hundred and seventy-four days. I did a show in Los Angeles on March 9, 2020, and I didn’t perform in front of a live audience again for four hundred and seventy-four days. I was in Toronto in the middle of May, doing pre-production work on the movie of 13, when Jennifer Ashley Tepper at 54 Below sent an email asking if I would be among the first acts to reopen their venue once New York State allowed them to have live audiences again.  I hesitated.  Did I have the vocal chops to get through a whole concert anymore? Would anyone comeRead More »

This morning – nineteen years after I first wrote down a list of characters including “Evan Goldman” and “Archie” and “Patrice”; eighteen years after Dan Elish and I started writing a show about those characters; thirteen years after that show premiered on Broadway and begat a novel published by HarperCollins, nine years after that show premiered on the West End, after over a thousand productions at junior high schools and middle schools, Jewish community centers, summer camps, youth theaters, concert halls in Japan, opera houses in Germany, and Korean worship centers, and after Robert Horn and I wrote a draftRead More »

Over the next several months, I’m going to be able to tell you lots of things about the movie of “13” that we’re currently rehearsing in Toronto. I’ll be able to tell you what songs we kept and how many new ones I added, I’ll be able to talk about how the characters have evolved since Dan Elish and I first created them seventeen years ago, share some of Robert Horn’s new hysterical dialogue, I’ll be able to show you clips of the amazing choreography, I’ll be able to introduce you to our fantastic director, all of that. It’s goingRead More »

The night that New York City went into lockdown, March 16, was to have been the 58th concert in my monthly residency at SubCulture, a series that has given me so much joy and fostered so much creativity and collaboration over the past five years that I can scarcely imagine my artistic life without it.  Since 2014, my band, my family, my fans, and a vast cross-section of the Broadway and music communities in New York City had converged on that spot on Bleecker Street once a month to help me make something magical happen. And yet, by order ofRead More »