BWW Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN Returns to Nashville, As Poignant And Powerful As Ever
by Jeffrey Ellis
- Mar 5, 2022
As poignant and as moving – and certainly just as emotionally draining – as you may remember from its first run at Nashville’s Tennessee Performing Arts Center in September 2019, Dear Evan Hansen has settled into TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall for a limited engagement through Sunday, featuring a stellar performance from Stephen Anthony Christopher in the title role, given superb support from director Michael Greif’s seven-person ensemble.
PPAC Receives Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Co-Producing DEAR EVAN HANSEN
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 23, 2022
J.L. “Lynn” Singleton, President and CEO of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) has announced that PPAC has received the 2020 Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Dear Evan Hansen. The 2020 Olivier Award winners were announced during an awards ceremony on October 25, 2020; PPAC received the physical Olivier Award this past week.
Orpheum Theatre Memphis Announces 2022-2023 Lineup Featuring PRETTY WOMAN, TINA, DEAR EVAN HANSEN & More!
by AniKatrina Fageol
- Feb 22, 2022
The 2022-2023 subscription series begins with Lincoln Center Theater's new production of Lerner & Loewe's classic MY FAIR LADY in July. Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin's adaption of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD arrives in August as the most successful American play in Broadway history. Based on one of Hollywood's most beloved romantic stories of all time, PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL hits the Orpheum stage in October.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN is Coming to the Schuster Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 16, 2022
DEAR EVAN HANSEN, will be at the Schuster Center March 8-13, 2022. DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it.
MTI Acquires Rights for DEAR EVAN HANSEN
by Nicole Rosky
- Feb 3, 2022
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) announced the acquisition of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, which currently has productions on Broadway, in London’s West End, and touring North America.
Wake Up With BWW 2/1: Josh Groban Tour, THE LAST UNICORN Musical, and More!
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- Feb 1, 2022
Today's top stories include a new rule for critics being invited to The Music Man. Breaking from the Broadway tradition, the musical has invited critics to its opening night performance rather than to previews. Josh Groban is going on tour this summer! Plus, a new stage musical adaptation of the book 'The Last Unicorn' is in the works with Fergie attached.
UP HERE, New Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez Musical Comedy Series Coming to Hulu
by Michael Major
- Jan 31, 2022
Hulu has greenlit Up Here, a new musical comedy series with original music by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Hamilton's Tony-winner Thomas Kail is slated to direct with Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen writer Steven Levenson serving as show runner. The musical romantic comedy is set in New York City follows a couple falling in love in 1999.
THE WANDERERS Will Play Off-Broadway in January 2023
by Nicole Rosky
- Jan 31, 2022
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) has just announced updates to the next season’s Fall/Winter programming Off-Broadway. The Wanderers, by Anna Ziegler, directed by Barry Edelstein will start performances on January 26, 2023 at the Laura Pels Theater in the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This production was originally scheduled for 2020 and postponed due to the shutdown.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN to Make Miami Premiere in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 20, 2022
DEAR EVAN HANSEN Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical, will make its anticipated Miami premiere at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from February 15-20, 2022. Miami-born actor, Stephen Christopher Anthony, leads the North American Tour cast in the title role.
BWW Review: No requiem for DEAR EVAN HANSEN
by Adrienne Proctor
- Jan 14, 2022
The national tour of Dear Evan Hansen makes its OKC stop at the Civic Center now through Jan 16th. When Evan's classmate commits suicide, his friends and family are left grappling and searching for answers. Evan constructs a friendship that never really existed between the two, and as the lie gets bigger, Evan struggles with revealing the truth.
VIDEO: Jordan Fisher Talks DEAR EVAN HANSEN on CBS MORNINGS
by Michael Major
- Jan 11, 2022
Jordan Fisher appeared on CBS Mornings this morning to discuss returning to Broadway in the title role of Dear Evan Hansen. The actor also touched on his own mental health struggles and how they allow him to connect to the role. Fisher also discussed his personal rules regarding social media and expecting a baby with his wife!
DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Bass Performance Hall Announces Digital Lottery
by Nicole Rosky
- Dec 30, 2021
Performing Arts Fort Worth, the non-profit owner and operator of Bass Performance Hall, announced today that DEAR EVAN HANSEN, winner of six Tony Awards® including Best Musical, will host a digital ticket lottery offering fans the chance to purchase a limited number of $25 tickets available per performance. The show makes its long-awaited Bass Hall debut in a limited engagement January 4-9 as part of the 2021-2022 Broadway at the Bass season.
Read the Full Screenplay For TICK, TICK...BOOM!
by Stephi Wild
- Dec 23, 2021
Last month marked the Netflix premiere of tick, tick...BOOM!, the film adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The film marks the directorial debut of In the Heights and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. Read the full screenplay here!
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