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Every Brilliant Thing

Daniel Radcliffe stars in the play Every Brilliant Thing.

Feb 21 – May 24, 2026
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We all know Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, but not all may know that the 36-year-old British actor won a Tony Award last year for his role in the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Radcliffe returns to Broadway to star in Every Brilliant Thing, an interactive one-man show written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe. The play premiered over 10 years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe, and has since been performed in 80 countries, including a 2014 Off Broadway run. Its premise? A man goes through a list, which he began for his deeply depressed mother, of everything that makes life worth living—the color yellow, waking up next to someone you love, Spaghetti Bolognese, the way Ray Charles sings the word “you.” Says Radcliffe, “There’s something about the nature of this play, and the connection that is being constantly made with the audience.”

Photo courtesy of Mary Ellen Matthews