[1][3][4] In 1975, Evans made his debut in the New York theater with David Storey's Life Class.
[2][3][4][5] In 1977, he appeared opposite Ellis Rabb in David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre.
[2][3][4][5] In 1982, Evans played James Leeds in a Broadway production of Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God.
[2][3][4][5] In 1979, Evans reprised his role in a television film adaptation of A Life in the Theatre.
[2][3] He died on May 20, 1989, from complications of AIDS at the age of 38 in Century City Hospital in Los Angeles.