Every Brilliant Thing (Broadway)

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About the Show

Tony Award winner Daniel Radcliffe in a solo show about life, hope, and a list of brilliant things.

This acclaimed solo show charts the emotional journey of a man reflecting on his life through an unusual, yet deeply personal lens: a list. Starting in childhood as a way to comfort his mother, this list compiles every wonderful, beautiful, and delightful thing that makes life worth living. The performance follows the narrator as he shares this ever-expanding catalog of small and significant joys, from "ice cream" to "deep breaths," engaging directly with the audience to recount the glimmers of hope that carried him through difficult times.

The production arrives on Broadway for a strictly limited thirteen-week engagement at The Hudson Theatre after being performed in over 80 countries worldwide.

Critic Reviews (16)

“Radcliffe is a spark plug, and his interactions with the audience are peppered with charming improvisation.”
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"And something more is happening here, too. Radcliffe makes himself extraordinarily available to us — his fondness for the audience radiates outward from wherever he is onstage."
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“The participants' trust in Radcliffe makes for some impossibly tender moments.”
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“ 'Every Brilliant Thing' makes for an unexpectedly buoyant evening of theater, but it never makes funny fodder of its dark subject matter"
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"Every Brilliant Thing is unsparing and clear-eyed in its presentation of the realities of depression and suicide, yet glows with a hopeful, life-affirming aura that convincingly depicts the value of struggle, and the beauty in tenacity."
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"Radcliffe lends himself beautifully to the material, while simultaneously allowing the crowd to curate the experience for themselves."
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“Even Radcliffe’s seemingly effortless charisma can’t entirely disguise a shallow, generic feeling at the heart of Every Brilliant Thing.”
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"Every Brilliant Thing centers on a list, compiled by the play's protagonist, of the details that make life worth living, and if Daniel Radcliffe isn't on it, that needs to be rectified immediately."
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