{"id":311944,"date":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311944\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","slug":"ben-platt-sets-10-show-residency-at-las-ahmanson-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311944\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Platt Sets 10-Show Residency at LA\u2019s Ahmanson Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning entertainer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/ben-platt-bowen-yang-defense-las-culturistas-diet-pepsi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ben Platt<\/a> set his Los Angeles roots return Friday, announcing a 10-show concert residency at downtown\u2019s Ahmanson Theatre. \u201cBen Platt: Live at the Ahmanson\u201d hits L.A. at the Center Theatre Group Dec. 12-21. <\/p>\n<p>The two-week engagement marks a homecoming for the \u201cDear Evan Hansen\u201d and \u201cTheater Camp\u201d star, who launched his early stage career at the Ahmanson in productions like \u201cDead End\u201d and \u201cCaroline, or Change.\u201d \u201cBen Platt: Live at the Ahmanson,\u201d directed by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Arden (\u201cParade\u201d), will feature the Broadway vet performing selections from his solo albums alongside musical theater classics. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/powerwomensummit2025.splashthat.com\/Creators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PWS-970-x-250-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7867003\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each night will also feature special musical guests, just like his 2024 Broadway residency, which brought out heavyweights like Cynthia Erivo, Nicole Scherzinger, Jennifer Hudson, Kacey Musgraves and Sam Smith for show-stopping duets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think of the very best in musical theater, it simply doesn\u2019t get any better than Ben Platt. You never know who\u2019s going to join him on stage each night,\u201d Center Theatre Group\u2019s artistic director Snehal Desai said in a statement, adding it\u2019s \u201cthe holiday event of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Platt, 32, first gained national attention in \u201cPitch Perfect\u201d before originating the title role in \u201cDear Evan Hansen\u201d on Broadway and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/dear-evan-hansen-film-review-ben-platt-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">in the 2021 feature film adaptation<\/a>. The stage production earned him the 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He later won a Grammy for the show\u2019s cast album and an Emmy for a televised performance. His screen credits also include a starring role in Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cThe Politician\u201d on Netflix. He has released two solo albums, \u201cSing to Me Instead\u201d and \u201cReverie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centertheatregroup.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">centertheatregroup.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"the-wrap-read-more__image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/ragtime-broadway-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ragtime-Broadway.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Ragtime Broadway\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tony, Grammy and Emmy-winning entertainer Ben Platt set his Los Angeles roots return Friday, announcing a 10-show concert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[157166,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-311944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ben-platt","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115392106646759968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}