EXCLUSIVE: Last year’s multiple Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen which won not only Best Musical but Best Lead Actor and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones, respectively, is on its way to becoming a film. Stephen Chbosky, who directed last year’s sleeper worldwide box…

When Dear Evan Hansen debuted on Broadway, it became the hot ticket musical and went on to win six Tony Awards in 2017 including Best Musical. With music and lyrics from Academy Award-winning La La Landers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and book by Tony winner Steven Levenson, the has leveraged social media to sculpt a…

Broadway’s winter lull focuses all eyes on the slim pickings as long-runs host 2-for-1 sales, houses sit empty in anticipation of the spring semester and shows hustle to sustain momentum after stars have exited for the ski slopes or warmer climes. Tony winner Ben Platt has left Dear Evan Hansen, but that musical, with…

The musical team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul won a Grammy tonight for Dear Evan Hansen, which adds the “G” to a foreseeable EGOT in their future. Pasek and Paul won tonight for Best Musical Theater Album for Dear Evan Hansen — which also won for Best Original Score and Best Musical Theater Album at last year’s Tony…

There soon will be a new Evan Hansen on Broadway — and then another. Dear Evan Hansen producer Stacey Mindich said today that Taylor Trensch, who plays Barnaby Tucker in the Main Stem’s Hello, Dolly!, will take over the title role in mid-January. His stint kicks in after The Real O’Neals alum Noah Galvin takes over…

The eclipse came a little early to Broadway, with box offices around town growing dim in a laconic week as crowds thinned. Most shows saw ticket sales drop from the previous week: Disney’s Aladdin, at the Mouse’s New Amsterdam, fell $142.5K – still coming up with 95 percent of its $1.7 million gross potential. Charlie…

Dear Evan Hansen, which last month won the Tony Award for Best Musical, has recouped its $9.5 million capitalization after 8.5 months, producer Stacey Mindich said Monday. The show, starring Tony winner Ben Platt as a shy teen who becomes a social-media hero in the aftermath of another teen’s suicide, has been SRO at…

Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-winning best musical about a nervy lie that turns a shy boy into a social media hero, continued to be the Street’s dominant new show last week, ringing up $1.73 million in ticket sales during an otherwise mediocre stand that saw several competitors in sizable nosedives. The Hansen tally…

It would be an understatement to say that songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are on a roll this year. The duo, song collaborators ever since their days at University of Michigan, kicked off 2017 with a Golden Globe and Oscar win for their La La Land penned-tune “City of Stars,” and just 11 days ago, their Broadway…

Broadway showed plenty of life last week, as crowds pumped the box office during the run-up to Sunday’s 71st Tony Awards. Seven of the 35 shows running exceeded their official gross potential: Newly minted Tony crown holder Dear Evan Hansen ($1.25 million, 6 per cent above potential with an average ticket price of…

Dear Evan Hansen won the Tony Award for best musical at tonight’s 71st annual Tony Awards. Oslo was named best play, while Hello, Dolly! and August Wilson’s Jitney were named best play and musical revival, respectively. Bette Midler took the award for best actress in a leading role in a musical for Dolly!, and Kevin…

Four-time Tony nominee Michael Greif is the rare Broadway director whose art and life are inextricably knotted. Start in 1996 with the seismic event that was Rent, Jonathan Larson’s cri de coeur for a generation set aflounder in an East Village that channeled the Paris of Puccini’s young bohemians. The musical’s reach…