New production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN to open at Nottingham Playhouse ahead of major UK tour
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions and Nottingham Playhouse have announced a new production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, will open at Nottingham Playhouse on 9 September 2024 ahead of a major UK tour.
Directed by Nottingham Playhouse’s Artistic Director Adam Penford, the show will then visit Leicester Curve, Theatre Royal Brighton, The Alexandra Birmingham, New Victoria Theatre Woking, Leeds Grand Theatre, Liverpool Empire, Sunderland Empire, Oxford New Theatre, Northampton’s Royal & Derngate, Mayflower Theatre Southampton, Milton Keynes Theatre, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury, Bristol Hippodrome, Palace Theatre Manchester, King’s Theatre Glasgow, His Majesty’s Theatre Aberdeen, Grand Opera House Belfast, Storyhouse Chester, New Wimbledon Theatre, Wolverhampton Grand, Lyceum Theatre Sheffield, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Hull New Theatre, Wales Millenium Centre, and Theatre Royal Norwich.
Casting is to be announced.
Director Adam Penford 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 reexamine 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.”
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