The director-performer has overseen four shows this season, many of them about love and ambition, while balancing family.

“The Last Five Years” featuring a book, music and lyrics, by Jason Robert Brown, has had a long journey since first opening in Chicago in 2001. It has had two off Broadway runs, two London runs (one West En…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, BOOP! The Musical, The Last Five Years, NYTW’s production of Becoming Eve, and Marilyn Maye @ 54 Below “Thi…

By David Sheward April 13, 2025. The Broadway premiere of The Last Five Years at the Hudson,Jason Robert Brown’s two-character tuner chronicling the romance, marriage and break-up of novelist Jamie and actre…

A misguided revival of Jason Robert Brown's chamber musical lands on Broadway, but at what cost? Lane Williamson reviews. The post Review: The Last Five Years at the Hudson Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Mag…

Rewind to Nick listening to the album backstage at Beauty and the Beast. Fast-forward to Nick starring in The Last Five Years on Broadway.

The Last Five Years stars Nick Jonas and Tony Award-winner Adrienne Warren stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show to talk about the demands of doing 8 shows a week, wardrobe malfunctions, and more. Watch the interv…

The heartbreaking musical The Last Five Years, led by pop star Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren, opened at the Hudson Theatre on April 6. The Broadway Show was there to speak to the Broadw…

On Thursday morning, Adrienne Warren took the stage on the TODAY Show to perform 'I Can Do Better Than That,' from The Last Five Years. Watch her performance now!

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren stopped by TODAY to discuss and perform from The Last Five Years. During their visit, Jonas took the stage to perform his rendition of 'If I Didn't Believe in You.' Watch the perf…

Whether it's an opening-night red carpet or a bustling rehearsal room, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is on the scene! See what's in store this week.  Celebrate the opening night of Good Night, and Go…

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The Last Five Years finally opened on Broadway earlier this week, a mere 24 years after its original premiere. Jason Robert Brown, who wrote both the music and lyrics, admits in his latest blog post that in ad…

Once I finish a show, it stays finished! Done! Close the book, put it away, here the Maestro laid down his pen. Except sometimes. I mean, there’s always one line that I never... Read more.. The post UPDATING …

The Last Five Years is finally on Broadway and Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas are a part of that. Jason Robert Brown's beloved musical, under the direction of Whitney White, opened Sunday night at the Hudson Th…

The Last Five Years is finally on Broadway and Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas are a part of that. Jason Robert Brown's beloved musical, under the direction of Whitney White, opened just last night at the Hudson…

‘The Last Five Years’ Reviews, ‘Ragtime’ Reportedly Set for Fall on Broadway, Matt’s ‘BOOP!’ Mini-Review Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the…

The Last Five Years, starring pop star Nick Jonas and Tony winner Adrienne Warren in the chronologically split story of Jamie and Cathy, opened at the Hudson Theatre on April 6. It's the Broadway debut for…

Stars Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, composer Jason Robert Brown and original off-Broadway stars Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott talk about THE LAST FIVE YEARS' journey to Broadway on opening night. Ge…

The Jason Robert Brown musical opened its long-awaited Broadway run April 6.

  Anne DiGiovanni performs as deegie in the new solo show EXES: The Musical, which plays at The New York City Fringe Festival April 2 - 8. The idea for deegie's EXES album and EXES: The Musical was sparked …

Give it up for our girl Nasia Thomas, who was awarded the legacy “cape” for The Last Five Years.

The Last Five Years is finally on Broadway and Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas are a part of that. Jason Robert Brown's beloved musical, under the direction of Whitney White, opened just last night at the Hudson…

Male characters of various stripes – clockwise from top left,  valiant, vain, and vile  – dominated the Broadway shows that opened over the past week: “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “The Last Five Y…

The Last Five Year celebrated its Broadway opening night yesterday, April 6, at the Hudson Theatre. Check out photos of Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren taking their opening bows, along with members of the creati…

The Last Five Years follows two New Yorkers, rising author Jamie (Grammy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Nick Jonas) and aspiring actress Cathy ...

The first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s slender, sublime musical falters from uneven casting.

Experience the messy, euphoric, sexy, savage, fleeting rush of falling in and out of love in New York City at The Last Five Years, starring Grammy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award® wi…

But in the show’s first Broadway incarnation, starring the resplendent Adrienne Warren and an underpowered Nick Jonas, the structure (along with the balance) has been compromised. The production, which opened…

Each song must bear the emotional fullness of a scene, because it’s an entire memory. Warren can do this. Jonas, simply, cannot. Or does not. The post ‘The Last Five Years’ is a romance that lacks connect…

But for the most part, this is still The Last Five Years as devoted fans know it: a tuneful sketch of an ill-considered marriage between two young people who still hadn’t fully discovered who they were and wh…

Whitney White’s revival is sleek and unpretentious—Stacey Derosier’s lights, elegantly juxtaposing oranges, golds, and blues, are particularly lovely in helping to score the story’s temporal and spiritu…

The Jason Robert Brown musical opened its long-awaited Broadway run April 6.

Theatrely's Broadway review of The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown and starring Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren star in a muddy revival of Jason Robert Brown’s still-scathing musical.

Hudson Theatre, New York The cult favorite musical about a doomed couple gets a mostly impressive new staging, lifted by two magnetic performances Broadway is no stranger to stunt casting, as much a diss in New…

You’re five years older by curtain call. 

Composer Jason Robert Brown was something of a wunderkind, winning a Tony Award before the age of 30 for his rapturous, symphonic score for the 1999 musical Parade. He followed that critical hit with a two-pers…

★★★☆☆ Ineffective choices weigh down Jason Robert Brown's charming chamber musical The post The Last Five Years: Stuck on the Seesaw appeared first on New York Stage Review.

★★★☆☆ A much-loved musical love story, featuring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, makes a stylish but uneven Broadway debut The post The Last Five Years: A Romance Told Up and Down appeared first on Ne…

Two decades after it was first produced, I was finally won over to Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical inspired by the unraveling of his first marriage. This was in 2021 during the pandemic, when Out o…

The first ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren, directe…

PLAYBILL.COM. The Last Five Years, Starring Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas, Opens on Broadway April 6. The Jason Robert Brown musical comes to the ...

On today’s episode, Matt Tamanini is in conversation with the two stars of the Center Stage Theatre production of “The Last Five Years,” which is playing in Shelton, Connecticut through Sunday, April 13. …

The Jason Robert Brown musical comes to the Main Stem with Whitney White at the helm.

"I was going through what Cathy went through. I had the summer stock experience in Ohio. I literally did! I didn't realize how much this show, these characters, are already in me..." Adrienne Warren on how she …

In 1999, just on the cusp of 30, Jason Robert Brown won his first Tony Award. It was for Best Original Musical Score for Parade, an ambitious, two-act drama with sweeping Americana melodies, dark themes of sy…

“Moving too fast,” Jamie sings in The Last Five Years—and it’s not a bad way to describe Whitney White’s current pace. A rising force in American theater, White is a director, writer and performer, wh…

The first ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren is runni…

Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas star in the Jason Robert Brown musical at the Hudson Theatre.

PLAYBILLDER welcomes the Jason Robert Brown musical to Broadway with a look back at community theatre productions from over the years.

Introducing The Last Five Years Broadway Bowling League team: The Heartbreakers 💔🎳

On a recent visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers, Broadway's Adrienne Warren shed light on the production of The Last Five Years, which is now in previews at the Hudson Theatre. Watch the interview now!

The Last Five Years, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, is now in previews at Broadway's Hudson Theatre. Ahead of its opening on April 6, director Whitney White visited GMA3 to talk about the production.…

Host Tamsen Fadal sits down with THE LAST FIVE YEARS leads: Tony® winner Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas. Get tickets to THE LAST FIVE YEARS: https://www.broadway.com/shows/the-last-five-years/ Read the full …

It was 2002 and Nick Jonas—pre-Disney Channel and family-band stardom—was playing Chip in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. He was one of the only kids in a magical cupboard of seasoned stage actors, and as…

It's springtime on Broadway, which means spring preview time for The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal! It's a jam-packed episode, filled with all the highlights coming to stages in the weeks ahead. Here's ever…

It’s the 2025 spring preview episode of The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the…

Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas star in the Jason Robert Brown musical at the Hudson Theatre.

Performances began tonight for the first-ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award win…

Performances began tonight for the first-ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award w…

Jason Robert Brown's musical may be getting its Broadway debut now, but it's been beloved for over two decades.

Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, starring pop star Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren, begins previews at the Hudson Theatre on March 18. The musical two-hander by Jason Robert Brown…

The Jason Robert Brown musical comes to the Main Stem with Whitney White at the helm.

The Jason Robert Brown musical has announced digital and in-person rush ticket policies ahead of its March 18 start at the Hudson Theatre.

Previews begin tomorrow, Tuesday, March 18,  for the first-ever Broadway production of Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS. Learn more about the in-person and digital rush policies her…

The first-ever Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS will star Grammy and Golden Globe Award nominee Nick Jonas and Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren. Check out new photos of the Hud…

Whitney White welcomes the entire The Last Five Years family to the Hudson.

The duo visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ahead of starring in the Jason Robert Brown musical's Broadway debut.

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where they performed 'The Next Ten Minutes' from The Last Five Years. Check out the video here!

From dancers breaking bones to camera crews forced to take terrible risks, stage and screen jobs can be hugely hazardous, says a scathing new report. We meet workers who feel ‘disposable’ – and the groups…

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren, stars of The Last Five Years, are set to appear on The Tonight Show next week. The duo will sit down for an interview about the new production of the musical, as well as perform …

Norbert Leo Butz and Lauren Kennedy reunite to reflect on their journey as the original Cathy and Jamie in The Last Five Years. They share behind-the-scenes stories about the show's development, including how J…

Nick Jonas, star of the upcoming Broadway production of The Last Five Years, and his wife, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, recently paid a visit to Redwood on Broadway. Check out photos here!