tonight, stephen welcomes rachel maddow, ben platt and "stay human," featuring jon batiste.livan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) hey, man! good to see you, doctor! ( cheers and applause ) thanks so much! please have a seat! you're too kind. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. now, i don't know about you, but i've got a little extra pep in my step tonight because donald trump has left the country. ( cheers and applause ) breathing a little easier. federal judges, now would be a good time to reinstate that travel ban. ( laughter ) he's flying back from a dangerous part of the world. he said some radical stuff. i'm just saying, extreme vetting. that's all i'm asking for. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) where does his money come from, so many unknowns. his first stop this weekend was saudi arabia, where trump was greeted on the tarmac by king salman. that's nice. not all royalty will dune airport pickup. ( laughter ) just call me, i'll be circling. jus

the "new york times," says start ben platt is giving a performance that should not be missed. "dear evan hansen," has been nominated for nine tony awards, including best musical. ♪ ♪

ben platt. >> the first 12 and 15 minutes when you get to see evan and get to see him give his first monohog you get how deep a hole''s in and how in need o a savior he is so you understand how he falls into this. >> rose: we continue with cynthia nixon on broadway and the little foxes and in a film called the quiet passion, she plays emily dickinson. >> i think people who don't intend to come twice come sand see it one way and then come back because the rules are so different. because you see us in the first way, it's impossible to see us in the second way. >> rose: the urban pen exhi pigs at the metropolitan museum of art. we talk to jeff rosenheim. >> he understood the page of the magazine and how a picture would sit in, inc. h in the magazine and demanded it stop traffic and by doing so he applied all the training and art to the challenge. i mean, she was basically a vogue photographer for over 60 years. most of his pictures in the show were seen there and, yet, he was able to make prints on his own that have other qualities. that's the art. >> rose: theater and photography. when

the "new york times," says start ben platt is giving a performance that should not be missed. "dear evan hansen," has been nominated for nine tony awards, including best musical. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ charlie: joining me now is star ben platt, nominated for best actor in a musical, and writer steven levenson, nominated for best book. i'm pleased to have them at the table. tell me about your character. liz evan hansen? -- liz evan hansen? ben: evan hansen is an incredibly lonely highschooler, he has trouble connecting to other people. that is--- heightened by the hyper conductivity of social media. he feels under deep scrutiny, which pulls him deeper into himself, and makes him retreat even more. he really just can't find a place to belong and be heard and feel connected to anyone or anything. through this rather terrible lie that he tells about a fake friendship with a kid and his cast -- classroom committed suicide, evan grows closer to the family and helps them heal, and finds a new voice, and a place to be important, and find new confidence and come out of his shell, although it is all p

the "new york times," says start ben platt is giving a performance that is not likely to be better didhis season. "dear evan hansen," has been nominated for nine tony awards, including best musical. foresten you're in a there is nobody around you ever really crash or do you make a sound ♪ i ever make a sound? ♪ i wait around for an answer to appear waiting through a window me anybody see is anybody waving waiting, waiting? ♪ charlie: joining me now is star ben platt, nominated for best actor in a musical, and writer steven levenson, nominated for best book. i'm pleased to have them at the table for the first time. tell me about your character. who is evan hansen? ben: evan hansen is a really lonely kid, highschooler, he has trouble connecting to other people. that is heightened by the hyper connectivity of social media. everything is instantaneously judged and picked debt. he feels under deep scrutiny, which pulls him deeper into himself, and makes him retreat even more. he really just can't find a place to belong and be heard and feel connected to anyone or anything. through this rath

it stars ben platt as the teenager. stephen levinson is the playwright. tell me. your character.n? >> he is incredibly isolated, has a lot of trouble connecting to other people, and that is sort of heightened by the hyperconnectivity of social media and the fact, with young people especially, everything they're doing online is being ibstan tainsly judged and looked at, and he feels under deep scrutiny, which pulls him deeper and deeper into himself and makes him retreat even more. and he really just can't find a place to belong and be exphrd feel connected to anyone or anything. and through this sort of rather terrible lie that he tells about a fake friendship with a kid in his class who has committed suicide, evan grows very close to the grieving family of this kid and helps them heal in a way and find a new voice and confidence and a place to be important and belong and starts to come out of his shell, although it's all predicated on this fabrication. >> rose: is it also a critique of social media? >> when we started working on this, ben, justin, and i-- my other fellow writers

the "new york times," says start ben platt is giving a performance that should not be missed." has been nominated for nine tony awards, including best musical. ♪

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ben platt. >> the first 12 and 15 minutes when you get to see evan and get to see him give his first monohog you get how deep a hole''s in and how in need o a savior he is so you understand how he falls into this. >> rose: we continue with cynthia nixon on broadway and the little foxes and in a film called the quiet passion, she plays emily dickinson. >> i think people who don't intend to come twice come sand see it one way and then come back becse

host of "late night with seth meyers," and tony nominee from the broadway hit "dear evan hanson," ben plattwith the spectacular announcement, all next on "live" ." ♪ [cheers and applause] and now, here are kelly ripa and ryan seacrest! [cheers and applause] ♪

. >> reporter: ben franklin bridge looking good, drying out not a lot of attractive so far. trying to get to the airport this morning via the plattridge. traffic is moving here. westbound tail lights heading toward the airport ascertain i-95. if you're riding a train or bus today everything is a little bit off because of the holiday. dart buses except for the resort routes are not running at all. david. >> reporter: we have showers around this morning, matt, they are less intense and widespread in the overnight hours. south jersey clearing to the northeast. a batch pushing into chester and northern montgomery and bucks county, allentown and reading seeing that. thunderstorms out to the west. as we roll through the day, we'll struggle to get the numbers to rise. 58 degrees by 7:00 a.m. noon 61. there's a chance of spotty activity in the northern suburbs, philadelphia probably done with the rain at this point. 65 degrees by 3:00 p.m. perhaps sun coming out. a spotty afternoon shower or thunderstorm can't be ruled out, but mainly dry this afternoon. high of 70 but not until around 5:30 p.m. or 6:00 p.m. >>> the phillies are hoping t