Broadway star Isaac Powell joins movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen

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Written By Rebecca Wallis
Photo credit: Cody Chandler

Photo credit: Cody Chandler

Isaac Powell, star of Ivo van Howe’s 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story, is joining the cast of Universal’s screen adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen, it has been announced. 

He will play the role of high school jock Rhys in the new adaptation of the six-time Tony Award winning musical, which also picked up a number of Olivier awards recently. He will join a cast which also includes Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, Danny Pino, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, DeMarius Copes, Colton Ryan and Gerald Caesar. 

Powell scored critical reviews and received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical for playing the role of Tony in West Side Story, after making his Broadway debut as Daniel in Once on This Island two months after graduating from the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts. 

A release date for the movie adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen is yet to be revealed. 

Rebecca Wallis

Rebecca is a self-confessed theatre obsessive, with a particular love for musicals. She has loved writing for as long as she can remember and combining this love with her passion for theatre has been one of the best decisions she’s ever made. She is currently studying journalism, with hopes of making her theatre blogging into a career one day. Her favourite ever musical is Half A Sixpence, and she could tell you anything that you could ever want to know about that show. She is honoured to be a part of the West End Best Friend team and cannot wait to see how the page grows and grows.

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