A new production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is to tour the UK in 2024 and 2025.
Directed by Nottingham Playhouse’s artistic director Adam Penford, the show will open at the Nottingham Playhouse on 9th September 2024, ahead of a UK tour.
Packed with some of the biggest musical theatre songs of the last decade, Dear Evan Hansen has a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Oscar-winning composers for The Greatest Showman) and a book by Steven Levenson. Its many awards include the Tony® Award for Best Musical, Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Grammy® Award for Best Musical Theatre Album.
Pendford said: “Dear Evan Hansen has thrilled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic since it first premiered in 2015. Evan’s powerful story grips and moves people, told through a captivating script and musical score.
“This first, major, new and exciting UK production offers the opportunity to re-examine some of its contemporary themes and present this brand-new version to Nottingham and around the UK. I’m excited to begin the search for our Evan very soon.”
The show follows the story of Evan, an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more than to fit in. The thing is, on his way to fitting in, he didn’t tell the whole truth. And now must give up on a life he never dreamt he’d have. As events spiral and the truth comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everyone around him.
Dear Evan Hansen UK tour dates include:
Nottingham Playhouse: 9th - 28th September, 2024
Theatre Royal Brighton: 15th-19th October, 2024
Leeds Grand Theatre: 5th-9th November, 2024
Oxford New Theatre: 26th - 30th November, 2024
Northampton Derngate: 14th - 18th January, 2025
Milton Keynes Theatre: 28th - 1st February, 2025
Bristol Hippodrome: 11th - 15th February, 2025
King’s Theatre, Glasgow: 25th February - 1st March, 2025
Grand Opera House, Belfast: 11th - 15th March, 2025
New Wimbledon Theatre: 25th - 29th March, 2025
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: 8th - 12th April, 2025
Theatre Royal, Plymouth: 15th - 19th April, 2025
Wales Millenium Centre: 29th April - 3rd May, 2025
For more information and booking information visit https://dearevanhansen.com/
