Jason Robert Brown News

BWW Previews: OCU Stripped Presents SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD

Nasia Thomas and Nicholas Edwards will star in the upcoming upcoming site-specific virtual production of The Last Five Years, which features book, music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown.

The Dallas Opera announced today that it will be launching a new, three-event “Welcome Back” Song Series in the Winspear Opera House commencing March 31, 2021.

The Abbey Theater of Dublin is partnering with State of The Arts Productions to co-produce 'Songs for a New World' - the first musical from Jason Robert Brown. In-person performances will run for two weeks at the Abbey Theater premiering at 8 p.m. on March 19 and 20. Then at 3 p.m. on March 21, and again at 8 p.m. from March 25 to 27.

Broadway On Demand will present the first ever virtual presentation of the 31st annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, Monday, March 15 at 7PM ET.

North Carolina Theatre has announced changes to its upcoming 2021-22 Season. North Carolina Theatre will begin its upcoming season in July with Jason Robert Brown’s musical, Songs for a New World.  This will replace Broadway Connection. On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan will now move to the end of the season in August 2022.  

Un 3 de marzo de 2002 THE LAST FIVE YEARS se estrenaba Off-Broadway, protagonizado por, el ganador de dos premios Tony, Norbert Leo Butz,y Sherie Rene Scott. El musical de Jason Robert Brown, ganador del premio Drama Desk, presenta la apasionante historia de una pareja desde que se conoce y se enamora hasta que deja de quererse.

'Honeymoon In Vegas' tells the story of Jack Singer, a Brooklynite with an extreme fear of marriage, who finally gets up the nerve to ask his girlfriend Betsy to marry him. 'Forever starts tonight' as hosts Bobby Traversa and Kristina Miller-Weston discuss 2015's 'Honeymoon In Vegas' on episode five of popular Broadway podcast My Favorite Flop!

“The Jesse Walker Show” is celebrating the shows 20th season with a special event reuniting some of the cast and creative team from 2014 Broadway musical The Bridges of Madison County, including Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, Steven Pasquale, Hunter Foster, Caitlin Kinnunen, Derek Klena, and creative team Jason Robert Brown & more.

If you ask any big fan of musical theatre if they are familiar with Jason Robert Brown’s music, almost every one of them will answer with a resounding yes, and they may even mention Brown’s most popular piece to date; The Last Five Years

On this day in 2002, Jason Robert Brown's beloved musical, The Last Five Years, opened Off-Broadway starring two-time Tony-winner Norbert Leo Butz and Tony-nominee Sherie Rene Scott.

stream.theatre is adding even more shows to their platform through March and April including 4 exclusive digital premieres of major new productions. For drama fans, Shane Richie stars a new revival of Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher, which premieres on 26 March.

Gainesville Theatre Alliance has announced two digital offerings to close their 2020-21 season. Due to continued COVID-19 restrictions at both Brenau University and the University of North Georgia, both shows will be filmed and edited through a collaboration with UNG's Film Department and streamed to audiences for free.

Drake University Theatre Department will present Songs For a New World by composer Jason Robert Brown. This is a virtual video on demand production. The video will be available to view Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00 AM - Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00 AM CST.

The Kleban Foundation celebrates the 31st anniversary of the annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre with the announcement of the 2021 prizewinners. The Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has been awarded to Benjamin Scheuer. The Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre librettist has been awarded to co-librettists Melissa Li and Kit Yan.

Dean Johnson directs Sejal Keshwala (Faith), Emma Kingston (Brooklyn), Newtion Matthews (Street Singer), Jamie Muscato (Taylor) and Marisha Wallace (Paradice), with musical direction from Leo Munby and video editing by Sam Diaz.

Out of the Box Theatrics, Holmdel Theatre Company, and Blair Russell have announced the creative team and streaming dates for their upcoming site-specific virtual production of The Last Five Years.   

We've looked across successive weeks at a range of plays over time that offered crucial opportunities to an array of then little-known men and women who have since shot to varying degrees of renown. Now, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various names whom the world would get to know later.

Con San Valentín a la vuelta del calendario, nos hemos lanzado a preguntarles a los artistas de teatro musicales cual es la canción de amor que más les gusta y por qué. Aquí recogemos todas sus respuestas.

stream.theatre have added even more exclusive events to the schedule in the coming months, from hit concerts to a reprise of one of last year’s most popular streaming events.