Ben Jones Sings 100 Years of the American Songbook

TIMELESS is Ben Jones and Ron Abel’s sweeping new concert celebrating one hundred years of the American Songbook — from the jazz-age architects who shaped it to the modern songwriters expanding its boundaries today. With Abel’s signature arrangements and Jones’s cinematic vocals, the show threads together iconic works by Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Cy Coleman, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, John Lennon, and Bob Dylan, alongside contemporary classics from artists who carry the Songbook forward. More than a retrospective, TIMELESS is a living conversation between eras — a dramatic, musically fearless journey that reimagines beloved songs while revealing how powerfully they speak to who we are now.

Premiering 2026

Temptation is Ben Jones at his most unbuttoned — a fast, theatrical, comedy-driven deep-dive into desire, obsession, self-sabotage, and all the bad decisions that make for great stories. Joined by Ron Abel, Ben rips through a wildly eclectic songbook that runs from Irving Berlin, Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley, Nat King Cole, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Nina Simone, and Stephen Sondheim to MIKA, Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton, Rufus Wainwright, and Tom Waits. The show stitches together standup-level storytelling with virtuosic vocals — an evening of temptation an audience is very happy to give in to.

Praise for Temptation:

“…on Monday night Ben Jones conjured as confident a stage persona as I’ve ever seen while blazingly offering some amazing singing at 54 Below with a show titled Temptation. His non-stop barrage of great music, hilarious standup comedy, and sensitive soul searching is a wonder.”
— Theatre Pizzazz

“If you haven’t seen Ben Jones, make it a must.”
— BroadwayWorld

In Let Me Be Frank, Ben Jones and Ron Abel celebrate Sinatra’s world while telling some very frank truths of their own. Built around swinging Sinatra standards and lush blue-eyed ballads from the songbooks of Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Brel, and Antonio Carlos Jobim, the show explores marriage, family, and show-business survival with side-splitting stories and high-octane vocals. Jones and Abel bring a jazz-inflected depth and originality to Sinatra’s hits and deep cuts alike — a joyful tour through some of the most beloved music of the 20th century.

Watch the Sizzle Reel here.

Featured in BroadwayWorld’s Best of 2022 and released as a live album. Stream the live album here.

I Think We Should See Other People is the wickedly funny companion piece to I Think I’m in Love — a sharply personal breakup show where Ben goes after relationships, sex, infidelity, and the stories we tell ourselves when it all blows up. With Ron Abel at the piano, the set careens from classic standards to modern bangers, featuring songs by Joni Mitchell, Harold Arlen, John Mayer, Bruno Mars, Peter Allen, Bo Burnham, Stephen Sondheim, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The result is a “jaw-dropping” evening of musical fireworks, savage humor, and surprising emotional punches.

Praise for I Think We Should See Other People:

“To describe this man's voice as soaring is to fall unpardonably short… you've never heard a voice like this or been made to laugh by a singer quite this much.”
— BroadwayWorld

Featured in BroadwayWorld’s Editor’s Picks for 2022

I Think I’m in Love is Ben Jones and Ron Abel’s deep-dive into the madness of romance — a cinematic evening of Broadway and pop that traces infatuation, obsession, commitment, and heartbreak. With Ron’s lush arrangements framing songs by Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Waits, Jason Robert Brown, and Lerner & Loewe, Ben threads in raucous, brutally honest stories from his own love life, turning a “love songs” concert into something far funnier, stranger, and more human.

Praise for I Think I’m in Love:

“Jones left the audience thunderstruck over and over.”
— BroadwayWorld