A repost from 2011: There isn’t much I can say about this song or the events that inspired it. I don’t perform it very often anymore because it now feels like a promise that wasn’t kept. But for several years after I wrote it, I had the great good fortune to have Adriane Lenox joinRead More »

Click here to read Laura Collins-Hughes’s article. “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” CROSSES OVER TO THE MUSICAL STAGE By Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe correspondent July 27, 2013 NEW YORK — Robert James Waller is all of three words into his novel “The Bridges of Madison County” when he mentions music. “There are songs that come freeRead More »

Yesterday, principal photography wrapped on the film version of The Last Five Years, adapted and directed by Richard LaGravenese (the writer of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Fisher King), and starring the luminous Anna Kendrick and the magnificent Jeremy Jordan. (Sadly, I wasn’t around for the end of the shoot, butRead More »

Last night, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis celebrated its 50th Anniversary with a stupendous soirée featuring an ensemble of seventeen actors and twelve musicians as well as a mighty lineup of guest performers, including Whoopi Goldberg and TR Knight. The director, Peter Flynn (who I’ve known for many years both as a wonderfully gifted theatreRead More »

Today – April 26, 2013 – marks the one hundredth anniversary of the murder of Mary Phagan in the basement of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia on the day of the Confederate Memorial Day Parade. I have spent many years carrying the facts of that day around in my head, and I haveRead More »