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 showRead 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 evolvedRead More »

A couple of months ago, I got an email saying that a high school principal had told one of his students that they couldn’t do “13” for their Spring Musical because one of the lead characters in the show was a terminally ill child. I wrote the following piece and sent it to that studentRead More »

Ooh, I haven’t done one of these in a while! Jason Marks writes: Getting ready to musically direct 13 this fall, and just had callbacks last night. We had lots of terrific kids who are great actors and most who are fairly strong singers. However, the role of Evan Goldman is proving to be aRead More »

Mark Shenton’s original review can be found here. 13, a new musical The Stage, Published Thursday 23 August 2012 at 10:54 by Mark Shenton Jason Robert Brown’s Parade has been produced at the Donmar and Southwark Playhouse, and The Last Five Years at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in a series of Sunday night performancesRead More »