'Dear Evan Hansen' star Sam Tutty on awards, Shakespeare, and surviving the pandemic
Sam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious 22-year-old has done the odd gig here and there, including, most remarkably, playing Romeo in a technology-intensive fresh take on Shakespeare's play.