A theater in the UK is doing a production of The Last Five Years, and they asked if I would be willing to do an e-mail interview for publicity. This happens a lot, and since the questions are often very similar, I thought I’d post my responses here and maybe save everyone a little timeRead More »

Just in time for Christmas, a jam-packed bonus overstuffed edition of “Ask JRB!” Last week, while en route to a writing retreat on St. Barth’s (because I’m fancy, that’s why) I tweeted, “It’s time for a blog, and I’m sitting doing nothing on an airplane, so I could write it now, but I can’t decideRead 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 sitRead 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…Read More »

Wiley DeWeese asks, in hundreds of increasingly desperate emails over the course of the last month: In your blog a few years back you mentioned that the script of the Donmar production of Parade would be the only version available to license starting in 2008; however, the MTI website still lists the 1999 touring versionRead More »