After celebrating its official opening night on May 1, Dear Evan Hansen has extended its off-Broadway engagement. The Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Steven Levenson musical, starring Ben Platt,…
Film director Robert Altman’s son Mike was a teenager when he wrote the lyric (to Johnny Mandel’s melody) that became the them of M*A*S*H. You remember it:
The game of life is h…
Musicals are uniquely adept at telling large stories about individuals in conflict with society"so capable of doing so that we sometimes forget how smart they can be about individuals in con…
Watching “Dear Evan Hansen,” now playing at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater, is like falling down a rabbit hole that leads back to high school. Steven Levenson’s …
Second Stage Theatre, in association with Stacey MindichProductions, just last night opened the new musical, Dear Evan Hansen, featuring Ben Platt as the title character. Also reprising thei…
Second StageTheatre, in association withStacey MindichProductions, just last night opened the new musical,Dear Evan Hansen, featuringBen Plattas the title character. Also reprising their per…
Second Stage TheatrePop score and outcast protagonist hit all the right notes as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul production explores intense issues " and critiques internet culture Can a performa…
By Brian Scott Lipton Anyone who has ever felt unloved, rejected, isolated, or gone to high school (have I left anyone out?) will relate to Dear Evan Hansen, the heart-s…
The title character of Dear Evan Hansen, the gorgeous, affecting, and wayward new musical that just opened at Second Stage, is caught in a predicament that that would vex someone much older …
This new contemporary musical stars Ben Platt of 'Pitch Perfect' fame as a depressed high-schooler caught up in a lie that acquires a life of its own in the social media bubble. read more
Ben Platt in “Dear Evan Hansen” (photo: Margot Schulman) 2econd Stage Theatre March 26th thru May 29th Opened May 1, 2016 Book by Steven Levenson Music & Lyrics by Benj Pasek…
A teen seizes upon the suicide of a classmate as a means of feeling connected to the world. Still-keen teen observer Michael Greif draws a textured performance from sympathetic lead Ben Plat…
Days after the Broadway season officially ended, off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre has opened the next likely prospect for a commercial transfer. "Dear Evan Hansen" is an ingenuous, multil…
We live in an age where the world is changing fast around us, we search for answers we can’t find on our own, we feel things that we don’t know are true or not. We wear our heart…
