{"id":340081,"date":"2026-09-07T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340081\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:18:29","slug":"brooklyn-roots-broadway-dreams-jonathan-judge-russo-on-music-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340081\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn roots, Broadway dreams: Jonathan Judge-Russo on \u2018Music City\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMarysol Castro, Ben Aaron, and Marcia Parris<\/p>\n<p>\t\t3 hours ago\n<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Actor and producer Jonathan Judge-Russo is having a breakout year. Currently starring in the hit off-Broadway musical Music City, the longtime New York theater artist is also developing an ambitious slate of film and television projects as a producer while running an independent theater company in the city. <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan grew up in Bay Ridge and Park Slope and knew from an early age that he wanted to captivate audiences. His story is unique: his mother was a Catholic nun and his father a Catholic priest. After leaving religious life, they later met while pursuing their PhDs at NYU and started a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marysol Castro, Ben Aaron, and Marcia Parris 3 hours ago NEW YORK (PIX11) \u2014 Actor and producer Jonathan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-340081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}