Jason Robert Brown News

Eagle Theatre's production of Jason Robert Brown's 2002 Drama Desk Award Winner, The Last Five Years, opens June 1st, 2018.

Tonight (June 1) in London, or this afternoon in the US tune in to BBC Radio for a broadcast of FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT, recorded live at the London Palladium on April 11 with Betsy Wolfe, Norm Lewis, Rachel Tucker and the BBC Concert Orchestra. The broadcast begins at 8pm in London on BBC Radio 2, 3pm EST or 12pm PST.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: the Stars in the Alley concert is held today, Log Cabin starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson begins previews tonight, and more!

The long awaited revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's gripping Tony Award-winning murder mystery musical PARADE as presented in 2013 at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium by 3-D Theatricals (3DT) of Los Angeles and Orange County, will once again take a bow at two Southern California main stage theatres beginning June 1 - 10 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts and June 15 - 24, 2018 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.

Casting is complete for the Encores! Off-Center production of Songs for a New World with the addition of television actor and Encores! alum Colin Donnell (Lady, Be Good!; Merrily We Roll Along; Follies).

Obsidian Theater continues the 2018 season with the Drama Desk award winner, The Last Five Years. Jason Brown's emotionally powerful and intimate musical runs at Obsidian Theater, June 21 - July 14, 2018. Written by Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years, is an emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, telling her story backwards while Jamie tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

Jason Robert Brown's one night only concert event, 'Friday Night is Music Night' will be broadcast on BBC Radio this Friday June 1st at 8pm.

McCarter is proud to welcome a group of esteemed and emerging playwrights and theater artists to Princeton for the Sallie B. Goodman Artists' Retreat. The annual Retreat in June is a centerpiece of McCarter's LAB, a platform and creative incubator devoted to ongoing theatrical development and artist cultivation. The 2018 Retreat will take place from June 6 - June 13.

Romance is in the air this summer as Farmers Alley Theatre returns to the Little Theatre on Oakland Drive for the West Michigan premiere of the Tony-Award Winning musical THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, running June 8th through the 24th. Based on the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that sold over 60 million copies worldwide, and the Academy Award winning film which starred Meryl Strep and Clint Eastwood, this brand-new adaptation features a book by Marsha Norman and Tony-Winning Score & Orchestrations by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years).

THE GREEN ROOM 42 - Broadway's newest intimate concert venue - has announced the return of Mykal Kilgore, the celebrated vocalist starring in New York City Center's upcoming Encores! Off-Center production of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, for an encore performance on Monday, June 4 at 7:00 PM.

As The Public Theater of San Antonio opened its latest play, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, audiences knew it was going to be a hit. The anticipation was great as many knew that J. Scott Lapp would direct this wonderful show based on the novel by Robert James Waller with the book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown.

Ghostlight Records will celebrate the release of PRINCE OF BROADWAY Original Broadway Cast Recording with an exclusive in-store event at Barnes & Noble on Friday, June 1 at 7:00 PM. PRINCE OF BROADWAY is a musical celebration of director and producer Hal Prince. Mr. Prince will appear at the event in conversation with three-time Tony winner Jason Robert Brown.

Encores! Off-Center Co-Artistic Directors Anne Kauffman and Jeanine Tesori today announced casting for New York City Center's popular summer musical theater series Encores! Off-Center.

The long awaited revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's gripping Tony Award-winning murder mystery musical PARADE as presented five years ago at Fullerton's Plummer Auditorium by 3-D Theatricals (3DT) of Los Angeles and Orange County, will once again take a bow at two Southern California main stage theatres beginning June 1 - 10 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts and June 15 - 24, 2018 at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Broadway's JEFF SKOWRON*, RUFUS BONDS JR.* and DAVIS GAINES* lead many returning cast members of the original 2013 3DT production.

GHOSTLIGHT DELUXE, an imprint of Ghostlight Records, will release Take Me to the World - the long-awaited third album from two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster - on Friday, June 1. Starting today, Friday, May 18, customers that pre-order the digital album will immediately receive a download of the album's second single. "I'm on My Way / On My Way" is a medley of one of Sutton's signature songs from the musical Violet, combined with the traditional spiritual. The album is being released in conjunction with the fifth season of the critically-acclaimed TV Land series "Younger," which returns on Tuesday, June 5.

The love story that had book clubs and moviegoers swooning will give theatergoers something to fall in love with as Avon Players presents the soaring Jason Robert Brown musical, The Bridges of Madison County, May 18-June 2.

Gorgeous melodies and a tender love story take center stage in Eagle Theatre's upcoming production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, opening June 1st, 2018.

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY will be at Minot State University from June 25 to June 29. It features music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and is based on the novel by Robert James Walker. 

For three years, I have obsessed over the Original Broadway Cast Album of Lin-Manuel Miranda's ingeniously constructed, powerfully-rendered musical masterpiece HAMILTON, mostly because it just wasn't possible for me to see the show at its home at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. Fast forward to Fall of 2017 and the show finally makes its long stop in Los Angeles. I snagged a ticket and it was transcendent. Fast forward again to now May 2018, and the show's second national tour has finally arrived in my back yard at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for a three-week run through May 27. This production not only successfully reignited my love for this show, but it has also promptly solidified it as, in my humble opinion, one of the best musicals of all time. Apart from being one of the most undeniably creative stage shows ever produced for the American theater, HAMILTON is also one of the most deeply moving and shrewdly intelligent stage musicals I have ever experienced---made even better thanks to an insanely talented ensemble cast that raps, sings, and acts their way into this gripping, very American story. All that hype? Completely justified.

Today's subjects Bob Banghart and Georgia Stitt are currently living their theatre lives as the composers (Banghert and Stitt) and lyricist (Stitt) of what I consider to be one of the best new musicals I've seen in a good long while. I am referring to the Alaska-based world premiere musical Snow Child, now running through May 20th at Arena Stage.