Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt will reopen Broadway’s Palace Theatre on May 28. The Dear Evan Hansen and Parade star will perform a limited 18-performance concert residency in celebration of the release of his upcoming third album Honeymind, available May 31.
Directed by Tony Award winner Michael Arden, Ben Platt: Live at the Palace will showcase songs from Platt’s discography as well as a few surprises for fans. The concert residency will be the first show at the newly refurbished theater, which closed for renovations in 2018 as part of the $2.5 billion TSX Broadway development project. As part of that development, the theater was raised 30 feet to make room for commercial space.
Platt spoke about the residency in a recent interview with The Broadway Show: “The only experience that I haven’t had, in the context of Broadway, is to lose that one last little bit of safety and separation that comes from character and being in another person’s piece.”