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[adamkubert]

✏️#everybrilliantthing #thetribenyc (at Tinto)

[kelseymaurinebrickl]

Every Brilliant Thing: The Most Responsible Show on Broadway

Kelsey Maurine Brickl recently published this review of Every Brilliant Thing.

Every Brilliant Thing The Most Responsible Show on Broadway. Kelsey Maurine Brickl Apr 05, 2026

Content note: This article discusses suicide, mental illness, and intergenerational experiences of loss. Please take care while reading.

I saw Every Brilliant Thing on Broadway today. It was truly the best show I have seen in a very long time.

The Hudson Theatre’s vestibule set the scene with some foreshadowing, bedecking its Beaux-Arts ceiling with color-coordinated paper hangings, some of the “brilliant things” in question.

Before the show, Daniel Radcliffe began circulating the theatre. He did not stop moving until his final bow. He was getting volunteers to shout various lines, to play small roles, and like a quarterback on a football team, his emotional intelligence in reading the room was apparent. His choices worked well during the show; the audience member he selected to “marry” him as “Sam” was a guarded young man who seemed slightly skeptical at first, but by the end of his participatory scenes, had visibly warmed entirely to his “responsibilities.”

Dan chose well. His new “dad” told him so, too, in his improved speech, which was heartily cheered.

I was truly struck by the lighting and stripped-down stage, and the slightly disarming and almost disorienting, but skillfully immediate rapport that Daniel Radcliffe established as the lone actor in the show.

He managed rehearsed humor, improvised warm hilarity, and tonal pivots to genuine gut punches within a moment. His interactions with recruited audience members felt far less like dental surgery, as they might in less adept hands, and more like genuine, spontaneous, and meaningful exchange.

In a show with the thesis of this one, that was non-negotiable.

I have been somewhat transparent about my own ethos with mental health before. I live with Bipolar I disorder and PTSD, and I am the granddaughter of a man who died by suicide.

Needless to say, this show and its themes could have hit all wrong. Instead, it felt true, real, responsible, fair, justified, equitable, and like it paid itself off. It felt Stoic. It was not cruel. It was not sappy.

At the end of it, life continued.

And for that reason, Every Brilliant Thing is the most important and responsible show on Broadway right now.

Learn more about Kelsey Maurine Brickl at kelseybrickl.com

[theoliverchong]

Posted @withregram • @leawchee 以前觉得剧场的魔力是一种对现实的抽离 <每一件美好的事>更像是一把声音提醒着你 即使生命里充斥着很多的无能为力 都不要忘了还有那些数不胜数大大小小的 美好的事物 是吧 看起来都是老生常谈 但确实是一直被我们遗忘的能力 尤其是在这看起来没有尽头的疫情期间 它可以是一种信念 可以是创口贴 可以让伤口愈合得更快一些 . 上一次踏进剧院是2018年的<宝岛一村> 今天算是第一次观赏新加坡本土的剧作 虽然不是原创 但是改编后的接地气确实可以产生更多的共鸣 想想应该也是我第一次看独角戏第一次看小剧场 离主演这么这么的靠近 他情感的调动 他语调的起伏 我甚至可以看到他脸上情绪的变化 这一切我都可以这么直接的感受到 今天甚至有种听老朋友讲故事的恍惚感 这些对我来说 大概就是剧场最大的魅力了吧 当然也归功 @theoliverchong 的演绎 今天认识了一位优秀的演员. 灯一熄灭 热泪盈眶 啊开心 剧场真的有魔力啊. . . . #每一件美好的事 #everybrilliantthing #huayifestival #huayifestival2022 #esplanade #esplanadesingapore #theatre https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ5xUJJvDpr/?utm_medium=tumblr

[muffiemouse]

Every Brilliant Thing @citadeltheatreyeg #everybrilliantthing #mrspatterson #johnullyatt #brilliantyeg (at Citadel Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8kxz5KlSNb/?igshid=a9gjpt5atesj

[wilfredogarrigo]

#composer #tour with @cerquajoe #everybrilliantthing @forwardtheater @overturecenter (at Madison, Wisconsin) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7hgZrSFyzT/?igshid=bjxtstxhmdbb

[kyskornerproductions]

Watched the play "Every Brilliant Thing" at the @bloomsburgtheatreensemble tonight. I will be posting my review via my website on Saturday. Going again tomorrow with my daughter @fawkes1019 Sidebar: @richiecombscannaday made me cry. He is so talented. #bloomsburgtheatreensemble #everybrilliantthing #play #theatre #kyskorner #Kyskornerproductions #review #blogger (at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxi9BA7HEUr/?igshid=1ekew83fb9rpo

[myaddictionstories-blog]

Things worth LIVING for, inspired by the amazing #everybrilliantthing but our style 😁 our list begins now!! if you can contribute, please feel free to leave a comment below!! #MyAddictionStories #thingsworthlivingfor 🙌🏼 #1 Jamming our to Led Zeppelin and feeling free with the windows down 🖤

[myaddictionstories-blog]

A young man who attempts to ease his mother's depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Through adulthood, as the list grows, he learns the deep significance it has on his own life. 🎥 GO WATCH this documentary and allow it to dig deep within yourself, pull you out of whatever feelings your feeling and remember what HAPPINESS sounds like. #everybrilliantthing #MyAddictionStories