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‘Being American feels helpless and scary’: actor Ben Platt on nerves, queer songs and why he couldn’t do it without his husband

The star of Dear Evan Hansen plays a 1960s Greenwich Village crooner in hit queer musical Midnight at the Never Get. It’s the perfect outlet for his anxiety, he says

The Guardian - UK

Dear Evan Hansen gets likes amid teen social media ban

Dear Evan Hansen taps into the concerns about the digital world's impact on young people, and the musical's Australian production is getting some likes.

AAP

How a Twitter veteran wants to combat disinformation with blockchain

The crypto-powered platform Factland plans to release a token next year and serve as an alternative to Community Notes.

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Dear Evan Hansen: Australian production of Broadway hit puts mental health centre stage

The team behind the new staging of the Tony award-winning show leaned into emotional authenticity and a design that evokes the overwhelming experience of social media

The Guardian - AU

Dear Evan Hansen review – affecting account of teen torment embarks on UK tour

The musical about a boy who fakes a friendship with a dead student is back, capturing the disconnect between the adult world and childhood reality

The Guardian - UK

Son of a gun: tennis legend's lad takes lead in Dear Evan Hansen

While dad is at the Olympics, Beau is preparing for the stage.

The Canberra Times

From Broadway to film to Canberra: Dear Evan Hansen heads to the capital

The musical is setting out on its first Australian tour.

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‘Musk destroyed all that’: Twitter’s business is flailing after a year of Elon

Advertisers are spending less, regulators are circling, staff is at less than 50% of what it used to be and user numbers are down

The Guardian - UK

Andrew Barth Feldman spent a whole summer being (badly) seduced by Jennifer Lawrence

The 21-year-old musical theatre actor – who led Broadway’s ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at the age of just 16 – steals the show in the year’s funniest comedy, ‘No Hard Feelings’. He talks to Adam White about nude scenes, age-gap backlash and emerging from personal tragedy

The Independent UK

‘Dear Evan Hansen’: Gifted actors have their pulse on musical’s feelings of optimism, alienation

The social media commentary in the Tony-winning show, now at the Nederlander Theatre, remains as timely as it was at its premiere in 2015.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago actor Anthony Norman front and center with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ role

Though he now calls New York home, star of the touring production still considers Chicago ‘the pinnacle of acting.’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Cried for like 7 hours’: Dear Evan Hansen stars Ben Platt and Noah Galvin announce engagement

The actors publicly confirmed their romance in May 2020

The Independent UK

Ben Platt speaks out about Dear Evan Hansen age abuse: ‘The internet can be horrific’

Actor says the mockery which greeted his performance on screen playing a teenager as a 27-year-old was ‘a disappointing experience, and difficult’

The Guardian - UK

Ben Platt on the ‘horrific’ trolling he experienced after Dear Evan Hansen movie

Actor quit Twitter after deciding the platform is ‘almost exclusively for tearing people down’

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The Guardian - UK

‘This isn’t a show you see just once’: how Dear Evan Hansen is taking West End audiences by surprise

What is it that makes this award-winning musical so special? Abi McIntosh takes her seat in the audience to find out – and discovers what fans seated near her have to say

The Guardian - UK

‘If it were now I think I’d have a nervous breakdown’: Sam Tutty on becoming the star of Dear Evan Hansen in the West End

The hit musical’s leading man – and Olivier award winner – reflects on his road to stage stardom and why empathy is key to playing a troubled teen

The Guardian - UK

Dear Evan’s anthems: why the West End smash hit’s songs stir the soul

The breakout musical has won itself legions of fans in recent times. Here, the West End production’s musical director and one of its stars discuss why the show’s compositions have been such an important part of its success

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