Tony-winning singer-songwriter Jason Robert Brown is celebrating the 30th year of his career in the New York theatre with a Carnegie Hall concert. The Last Five Years and Parade composer will be joined by a number of starry special guests, including Heather Headley, Billy Porter, Kelli O'Hara, J. Harrison Ghee, Ben Platt, Shoshana Bean, and Raúl Esparza.
The performers will be backed by the 22-piece Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Brown and Georgia Stitt.
Brown won the 1999 Tony for Best Original Musical Score for Parade and 2014 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for The Bridges of Madison County. The 2023 revival of Parade also earned the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. His other musicals include Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years, 13, and Mr. Saturday Night.
This year has seen the premieres of two new Brown musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which completed a run at Off-Broadway's MCC Theater in April; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, written with Taylor Mac and directed by Rob Ashford, recently seen at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre and headed for a 2025 Broadway bow. His Off-Broadway hit, The Last Five Years, is heading to Broadway later this season.
Creative Partners Productions and Live Nation are producing the concert.
Tickets are available at CarnegieHall.org.