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Here’s how I’m getting 2010 off to a great start: Earlier this year, in May, East West Players presented a somewhat unconventional production of my musical, The Last Five Years. I say “unconventional” because East West Players is a Los Angeles-based company whose mission is to produce “outstanding works and educational programs that give voice…

Click here for Charles McNulty’s photo essay on the best theatre in California in 2009. And included in the list, this blurb about Parade: The Donmar Warehouse’s scaled-down version of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s 1998 musical about the execution of injustice done to Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager dubiously convicted of the…

It’s a special time of year, and the folks at Sheet Music Direct have teamed up with me and Sh-K-Boom Records to offer a special last-minute holiday digital promotion! Last month, Sh-K-Boom released a new version of the Original Cast Album to “13”, featuring the entire Broadway score, two previously unreleased JRB demos, nine karaoke…

Christopher Isherwood’s review here. His review for the original production (for Variety) can be found here. October 14, 2009 THEATER REVIEW | ‘PARADE’ Sorrow Over an Anti-Semitic Miscarriage of Justice, Rendered in Sotto Voce By CHARLES ISHERWOOD LOS ANGELES — As one of the bed-hopping interns in the hospital soap opera “Grey’s Anatomy,” T. R.…

Les Spindle’s review here. Parade (Theater Review) By Les Spindle, October 05, 2009 05:25 ET Bottom Line: Catch it before it passes by. This brilliant musical by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown eloquently dramatizes a real-life tragic miscarriage of justice that occurred in 1913 in Atlanta: the false conviction and ultimate mob lynching of…