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The trailer for the upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation has arrived!

Ben Platt reprises his Tony Award-winning role as the title character in the film version of the hit Broadway show.

Stephen Chbosky directed the film, about an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age.

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The upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation has just been given a release date!

The film version will premiere in theaters on September 14th, Universal Pictures announced, via Deadline.

Ben Platt will be reprising the title role, for which he won a Tony award for.

Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Colton Ryan, Amy Adams and Julianne Moore also star.

Here’s a synopsis: “The story follows Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who died by suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.”

Stephen Chbosky is directing the movie, with a script by Steven Levenson, who also wrote the book for the stage musical. The musical’s songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, along with Steven also serve as executive producers, as well as Ben‘s dad Marc Platt.

Amandla Stenberg will join the cast of the upcoming Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation!

It was just announced that the 21-year-old actress is set to play Alana Beck, in an expanded role for the film version, Variety reports.

Amandla will also get to sing a new original song, which she is co-writing alongside the Broadway musical’s original songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Alana is a high school senior whose cheery façade and social-media savvy mask a deeper loneliness and isolation, and whose response to the death of a classmate ignites a movement.

Dear Evan Hansen follows a high schooler with social anxiety who gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

Jordan Fisher was starring in the title role of Evan Hansen on Broadway just before the pandemic shut down the Great White Way.

Ben Platt will reprise the role of Evan for the film, which he originated on Broadway. Kaitlyn Dever is also in talks to join the cast as well!

People are practicing “Social Distancing” to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus.

While many people are staying home and figuring out what to do, a lot are taking to social media to share how they’re passing the time.

We’ve been seeing a lot of celebs trying to remain positive while being self quarantined and some are even using the time to make TikTok videos!

Ashley Tisdale shared a new video where she recreates the “We’re All In This Together” finale dance from the first High School Musical movie, and we’re going to need this to become a challenge with more people following suit!

“If you need to work out while on #selfquarantine try this 😂 hopefully this will brighten your day a little!” she captioned the clip on Instagram.

Other celebs uploading new, fun TikTok videos include Jason Maybaum, Ruby Rose Turner, Austin Mahone, Lidya Jewett, Amandla Stenberg and more.

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Yara Shahidi is a golden goddess at the Gucci fashion show during Milan Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2020-21 on Wednesday (February 19) in Milan, Italy.

The 20-year-old grown-ish actress was joined at the presentation by Amandla Stenberg.

Before heading to the show, Yara shared a couple of selfies with her mom Keri.

“Seeing double xx,” she captioned the pics on Twitter.

A fan commented that Yara and Keri should remake Freaky Friday, and she responded, “The best thing is we’re the same person in different bodies already so if we switched nothing would change 😂”

You can catch Yara on an all new episode of grown-ish TOMORROW (February 20) at 9pm ET on Freeform!

Lana Condor looked so amazing while attending the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party!

The 22-year-old TATBILB actress hit the carpet on Sunday night (February 9) at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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She was also joined at the event by Rowan Blanchard and Amandla Stenberg.

Other attendees included Kaitlyn Dever, Taylor Russell, Paris Jackson, Tommy Dorfman and Noah Jupe.

FYI: Lana is wearing a Jenny Packham gown. Rowan is wearing an Iris van Herpen dress, Sophia Webster shoes and Tiffany jewels. Amandla is wearing Balmain. Kaitlyn is wearing vintage Pierre Balmain gown via Shrimpton Couture, Haiki shoes, Harry Winston jewelry and carrying a Jimmy Choo clutch.

Yara Shahidi is all smiles on the blue carpet as she arrives at the 2019 LACMA Art + Film Gala presented by Gucci on Saturday night (November 2) at LACMA in Los Angeles.

The 19-year-old grown-ish star looked stunning in a yellow dress as she stepped out for the event.

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Other stars stepping out for the event included Billie Eilish and brother Finneas O’Connell, Amandla Stenberg, and model Lucky Blue Smith.

The event was held to honor Roma director Alfonso Cuaron and African-American artist Betye Saar.

FYI: Billie and Amandla are both wearing outfits by Gucci.

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