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Daniel Radcliffe Shares Why 'St. Denis Medical' Has Brought Him 'Joy'
Daniel Radcliffe engages audiences in an interactive solo show addressing suicidal depression by highlighting everyday joys in a 70-minute performance at a large Broadway theater.
- On Thursday, Every Brilliant Thing opened at the Hudson Theatre, starring Daniel Radcliffe as the sole credited actor.
- The story explains that the narrator began his list at age 7 after his mother's first hospitalization, while co-creators Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe crafted the piece to confront suicide and deep depression with levity.
- With in-the-round seating at the Hudson, audience members hold numbered cue cards to shout out entries during the 70-minute play, sometimes playing roles or props.
- Radcliffe's star power is the main reason the play reached Broadway, drawing ticket buyers and sparking mental health conversations, with two-time Tony winner Donna Murphy participating at a recent performance.
- Originating at the Ludlow Fringe Festival in 2013, Every Brilliant Thing now has hundreds of productions worldwide and an HBO-filmed version, with no two performances ever the same because of its audience-driven format.
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Daniel Radcliffe Shares Why 'St. Denis Medical' Has Brought Him 'Joy'
Daniel Radcliffe stars in Every Brilliant Thing, which officially opened on Broadway on Thursday, March 12. It’s an audience-participation heavy show, written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, that follows a young man who decides to come up with thousands of wonderful things about the world in hopes of helping his suicidal mother, who suffers from depression. Radcliffe, 36, — who has starred in plays and musicals on Broadway for years — is…
'Every Brilliant Thing' Broadway Review: An Avalanche of Audience Participation Buries Daniel Radcliffe
Imagine a PSA on suicide prevention if it were staged in Vegas with lots of audience participation. That accurately describes the international stage phenomenon titled “Every Brilliant Thing,” written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, which opened in 2013 and now has hundreds of productions around the world to its credit. “Every Brilliant Thing” finally came to Broadway, where it opened Thursday at the Hudson Theatre with Daniel Radcliffe …
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