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Review: Daniel Radcliffe Navigates Audience Participation in Broadway's "Every Brilliant Thing"

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Lauren Theisen

11d ago· 7 min readenReview

Summary

A review/reflection on Daniel Radcliffe's Broadway performance in "Every Brilliant Thing," a play about depression and suicide that relies heavily on audience participation. The author initially doubted the production would work due to the interactive nature of the show, but explores how Radcliffe's charm and stage experience navigate the challenging material and audience dynamics.

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For Radcliffe in particular I imagined it could be like navigating a minefield, especially in a show about depression and suicide.
Every description I've heard or read about him involves the word 'charming' somewhere in there
I was worried about everybody else in the theater, because this play runs on audience participation.
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When I first read that Daniel Radcliffe would be doing Every Brilliant Thing on Broadway, I didn’t think it would work. It’s not that I was worried about Radcliffe, who besides his film and TV career has established himself as a bona fide stage entertaine

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