Tony winner Ben Platt has released a music video for the track “Older” on his debut solo album, Sing to Me Instead.
READ: Watch Ben Platt’s Official Music Video for ‘Grow as We Go’
Tony winner Ben Platt has released a music video for the track “Older” on his debut solo album, Sing to Me Instead.
READ: Watch Ben Platt’s Official Music Video for ‘Grow as We Go’
The video was directed by Nick Lieberman. And for astute Broadway fans out there, yes, Elizabeth Davis (Tony nominee for Once) is featured in the video.
Platt launches his concert tour in May, kicking off in Chicago May 3 and closing in Los Angeles May 24. Platt will play New York City’s Beacon Theatre May 14.
Platt broke out as Benji in the 2012 hit film Pitch Perfect and that same year was cast as Elder Cunningham in the Chicago production of The Book of Mormon. He subsequently transferred to the Broadway production of Mormon in 2014. He created the role of Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen from early readings through the out-of-town tryout at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., to Off-Broadway’s Second Stage, and, finally, Broadway. Along with the 2017 Tony Award, Platt earned the Distinguished Performance Award by the Drama League and was the youngest performer ever to do so.
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Directed by Eric Tucker, the production feature four actors inhabiting the 19 roles of Othello.
The solo show, with audience participation, is running at the Hudson Theatre.
The Mark Rosenblatt play arrives in New York after an acclaimed engagement in London's West End.
The additions will help strengthen ETF's commitment to supporting theatre education in K-12 schools.
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Aya Ogawa will direct for En Garde Arts.
Carl Andress will direct the reading for the Project Shaw series.
Cynthia Nixon is directing the one-night-only reading of the Jane Chambers play for the Off-Broadway company.