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An astonishing treat: Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre reviewed

Plus: take your teenage kids to Richmond Theatre's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

issue 30 November 2019
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  • Dear Evan Hansen

    Noël Coward Theatre, booking until 2 May 2020

  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    Richmond Theatre, and touring, until 7 March

Dear Evan Hansen, by Steven Levenson, opens as a standard American teen-angst musical. Evan is a sweaty geek with a crush on Zoe Murphy whose rebellious brother, Connor, is so disturbed that he styles his hair to suggest ‘school-shooter chic’. Evan tries to befriend Connor but gets shoved to the ground.

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