How Now Brown Cow & Showtime Management are proud to present the South African premiere production of the Tony Award-Winning, Best Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Artscape, Cape Town from 12 February to 9 March 2025 and then at Montecasino’s Teatro, Johannesburg from 15 March to 13 April 2025. Tickets are on sale www.showtime.co.za or hownowbrowncow.co.za.

This brand-new reimagined production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN  is an empowering experience for anyone who’s ever considered themselves on the 'outside, always looking in’. A deeply personal and profoundly contemporary take on life and the way we live it, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is best summarised by the Huffington Post as “ … absorbing, wrenching, heartbreaking and at the same time exhilarating. This is a show that grabs your attention immediately, enchants you with its characters and songs, pulls you through emotional turbulence, and leaves you cheering and wanting to go back for more.”

The winner of six Tony Awards (including Best Musical), the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, and an Olivier Award for Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award-winner Steven Levenson (Fosse/Verdon), and a score by Grammy, Tony and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, La La Land, The Greatest Showman). 

All his life, Evan Hansen has felt invisible. But when a tragic event shocks him and his community, this socially anxious awkward high school student becomes the centre of a rapidly evolving controversy and resulting spiralling complex situation. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, to finally “belong”, Evan inadvertently grabs the chance to create an important role for himself by not telling the whole truth.  He transforms from a “nobody” to the central figure in a heartbreaking drama that explores adult themes of mental health, loneliness, and the human need for connection. As the truth evolves, Evan faces his web of lies and how everyone around him has been affected.