Brilliant ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ at Playhouse Square a start-to-finish cryfest

 

Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

 

The sobbing you hear underscoring the production of “Dear Evan Hansen” – currently on tour and on stage at Playhouse Square after being recognized as the best musical on Broadway in 2017 – is coming from both sides of the proscenium.  It is the sound of actors lost in their astoundingly honest and gut-wrenching depiction of people in pain and the audience’s gut-response to it.

 

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