Dan Elish News

Piedmont Players Theatre (PPT)'s youth cast from its production of the musical 13, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn and directed by Reid Leonard, will perform a number at Arts Night Out tonight, June 22, 2012, at 7 p.m. before the show's official opening at the Norvell Theater on July 12.

Piedmont Players Theatre (PPT)'s youth cast from its production of the musical 13, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn and directed by Reid Leonard, will perform a number at Arts Night Out on June 22, 2012, at 7 p.m. before the show's official opening at the Norvell Theater on July 12.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has just announced that Jason Robert Brown's musical THE LAST FIVE YEARS has been added to the company's upcoming 2012-2013 season. The musical, which has not been seen in New York City since its brief off-Broadway run over ten years ago, will be directed by Mr. Brown.

Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown has just announced in his blog the release of two seperate sheet music book and accompaniment CD sets of his music. He writes: 'My editor at Hal Leonard, the estimable Rick Walters, called me in 2010 with the idea that we should do a book-and-CD folio of me playing accompaniments to my own songs, with a male and female edition. I thought it was a fantastic idea, and now it's finally out in the world!' The Female edition and Male edition are both available on Amazon.com, as well as iTunes and Sheet Music Direct.

Starving Artist Studios, a new performing arts training facility in Central Florida, brings Tony-Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown to Orlando for a Concert and Master Class.

Starving Artist Studios, a new performing arts training facility in Central Florida, brings Tony-Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown to Orlando for a Concert and Master Class.

Broadway Bound Children's Theatre will present Jason Robert Brown in Concert, on December 8 th at 9:00pm following the preview performance of Seattle's first professional staging of his musical 13. The concert will be Mr. Brown's first ever in Seattle.

On Saturday, November 26, Tony Award©-Winning Composer Jason Robert Brown will appear in a masterclass to the students of the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program (Ryan Scott Oliver, Artistic Director).

Broadway Bound Children's Theatre will present Jason Robert Brown in Concert, on December 8 th at 9:00pm following the preview performance of Seattle's first professional staging of his musical 13. The concert will be Mr. Brown's first ever in Seattle.

On Saturday, November 26, Tony Award©-Winning Composer Jason Robert Brown will appear in a masterclass to the students of the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program (Ryan Scott Oliver, Artistic Director).

Jason Robert Brown, the Tony Award winning composer, will be an honored guest at the Opening Night of his musical 13, Friday December 9 at ACT. On Thursday night, December 8 at 9:00pm, following the preview performance, Jason will present a 90 minute benefit concert at the Falls Theatre at ACT, 700 Union Street, Seattle WA.

Dan Elish, co-book writer of Jason Robert Brown's Broadway musical 13, today announced the re-release of his children's fantasy novel, The Worldwide Dessert Contest (originally published in 1988 by Orchard) as an e-book complete with a dozen original musical theater songs written to compliment the story included right in the text!

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books has announced the newest addition to its beloved Applause Libretto Library Series, 13: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical (September 13, 2011, $16.99).

Theatre Aspen's upcoming summer season, reported Artistic Director Paige Price. The award-winning regional theatre unveiled the brand new Hurst Theatre in Rio Grande Park on June 24th with two musicals and a comedy. The theatre's 28th season of summer repertory features the regional premiere of Becky's New Car, by native Coloradan Steven Dietz, starring Emmy- and Tony-nominee Sandy Duncan. Opening July 7th is the beloved musical Annie, by Thomas Meehan (book), Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics), and the new musical Vices: A Love Story, (story by Michael Heitzman & Ilene Reid, and music and lyrics by Susan Draus, Everett Bradley, Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid). Vices closes out the season with a final performance on August 20th. Check out photos of the productions below!

The Pennington Players present an all-teenage cast in '13 the Musical,' a grown-up tale about growing up, at Mercer County Community's Kelsey Theatre.

The Pennington Players are excited to bring '13, The Musical,' to the Kelsey Theatre stage. '13,' a grown-up story about growing up, featured the only all-teenage cast ever to hit Broadway! '13' is a musical with lyrics and music by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Dan Elish, with Robert Horn as co-librettist.