October 12, 1995, was the first performance of Songs for a New World at the WPA Theatre on W. 23rd St. in Manhattan. Almost no one saw it, the reviews were polite but dismissive, and the theater doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet Songs for a New World lives on, in its wonderful cast album (producedRead More »

I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place.  I’m sorry if I mispronounced anything. Twenty-Six Names Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine F. Hsu, 6 Catherine V. Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6Read More »

There is a notation in my work diary for June 15, 1999: “Duet Project (Untitled) – first song ‘Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You’” which marked the beginning of my work on what would become The Last Five Years. “Still Hurting” was written on July 7 of that year, according to my notes, andRead More »

Welcome one and all to the entirely re-designed and re-configured JasonRobertBrown.com! I started this website in 2005 (an eon ago in Internet terms) so that I could create a full database of all my work, including the original reviews and photos, as well as a place where I could showcase all the new things IRead More »

As Songs for a New World evolved over the course of my first five years in New York City, I was absorbing a lot of different music in that way that is really only possible when you live by yourself and don’t have to spend your money on anything other than buying CDs. (I realizeRead More »