{"id":164156,"date":"2026-03-15T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:09:30","slug":"photos-every-brilliant-thing-starring-daniel-radcliffe-opens-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164156\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Every Brilliant Thing, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Opens on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radcliffe stars as a\u00a0nameless protagonist facing a distant father, a suicidal mother, and his own inexplicable deep sadness. And in a spark of childhood genius, he counteracts these obstacles by chronicling every brilliant thing in the world\u2014first to cheer up his depressed mother, and later for friends, lovers, and himself. Those things include items ranging from simple pleasures (“ice cream,\u201d \u201cthe color yellow\u201d) to the far more specific and detailed (“old people who are kind and don\u2019t smell unusual,\u201d \u201cthe even numbered Star Trek films”). The play lets the audience get in on the fun, helping Radcliffe count life’s brilliant things and even filling in onstage as his character’s father, childhood teacher, and significant other.
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With Radcliffe back in the very theatre where he offered\u00a0his Tony-winning performance in\u00a0Merrily We Roll Along, the opening night festivities served as somewhat of a\u00a0Merrily reunion; director Maria Friedman<\/a> was there to cheer him on, alongside his onstage co-stars Krystal Joy Brown<\/a>, Lindsay Mendez<\/a>, and\u00a0Katie Rose Clarke<\/a>. The starry guest list also included\u00a0Michele Lee<\/a>, Donna Vivino<\/a>, Alex Edelman<\/a>, Lea DeLaria<\/a>, Bess Wohl<\/a>, Whitney White<\/a>, Erin Darke, Jessica Vosk<\/a> and Kelli Barrett<\/a> (currently preparing to co-star on Broadway in\u00a0Beaches), Kerry\u00a0Butler, Marissa Jaret Winokur<\/a>, Olympians Evan Bates and Madison Chock, Steve Buscemi, Layton Williams<\/a>, Daniel Dae Kim<\/a>, Jane Krakowski<\/a>, Santino Fontana<\/a>, Jamie Lloyd<\/a>, Lupita Nyong’o<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

The solo play debuted at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it played three sold-out consecutive summers before coming to Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre in 2014. The latter run was filmed live and aired on HBO with Donahoe starring. The work returned to Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, where it was a Playbill Pick<\/a>. The work also recently made its West End debut at @sohoplace, featuring\u00a0a rotating roster of stars.<\/p>\n

The full creative team from that West End bow is reprising their work on the Main Stem, including Herrin and Macmillan, scenic and costume designer Vicki Mortimer<\/a>, lighting designer Jack Knowles<\/a>, and sound designer Tom Gibbons<\/a>. Casting is by Jessica Ronane<\/a>, TT Partners<\/a> is general managing, and Jhana\u00eb K-C Bonnick<\/a> serves as production stage manager. <\/p>\n

Second Half Productions<\/a>, Seaview, and Gavin Kalin Productions<\/a> are producing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radcliffe stars as a\u00a0nameless protagonist facing a distant father, a suicidal mother, and his own inexplicable deep sadness.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-164156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}