Evan Hansen Is A Lying, Immoral Creep - How Is It That Audiences Love Him So?

Jason Zinoman: "It's particularly amazing that this gifted dissembler has received such goodwill at a time when there is such anxiety about fake news and Internet disinformation. ... That Evan Hansen is not just a kind of hero but one whose story will stay with a generation of young theatergoers forever is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to reframe, manipulate, and even obscure moral concerns."