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Theatre Three’s Every Brilliant Thing is sheer brilliance

Theatre Three, in association with Response Crisis Center, presents the Long Island premiere of Every  Brilliant Thing, written by Duncan MacMillan, with Jonny Donahoe. 

1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out of your nose. 4. Me. In the face of severe depression, a child begins a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. The list soon takes on a life of its own in this captivating play by Duncan Macmillan, with Jonny Donahoe.

St. Louis Shakespeare presents Duncan MacMillan's EVERY BRILLIANT THING, directed by Donna Northcott and featuring Isaiah DiLorenzo

ACT - A Contemporary Theatre today announced its complete 2022/23 season featuring four vivid, contemporary plays. These plays offer experiences that unite us in celebration and in fellow-feeling, encouraging us to enjoy life while continuing to investigate what it means to be human.

American Shakespeare Center continues its 2022 season with a summer slate of plays that explore the connections between Shakespeare classics and contemporary theatre. Added to the list of previously announced titles will be the Antoinette Nwandu's groundbreaking drama Pass Over, which thrilled audiences on Broadway in summer 2021.

Every Brilliant Thing was a short story written by Duncan MacMillan. Actor and comedian Jonny Donahoe work-shopped it into a play with MacMillan before they took it off-Broadway. It is about suicide, and, surprisingly, it is not dark nor morose. It is, in fact, funny, touching and, in the broadest sense of the word, joyful.

So begins a list in the critically-acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing, written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, and running March 10-13 at Rome Little Theatre. The production features Amy Mendes as the narrator, and is directed by Chris Davidson.

Jonny Donahoe - writer, performer and frontman of musical-comedy-satirists, Jonny and The Baptists - will premiere his new one man show FORGIVENESS.

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival announced today the 2022 summer season. The upcoming season will be the Festival's 31st summer of productions, and the final season led by Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy.

Los Altos Stage Company will welcome audiences back to live theatre for the 2nd production of its 2021-2022 Back in the Barn Season. Every Brilliant Thing, by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, is a one actor show that will feature two actors (Tamarin Ythier or James Schott) alternating the solo performance role on different dates during the run.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will kick off its much-anticipated full season for 2021-22 with a remount of the beloved Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe.

The highly acclaimed company returns to production after an unprecedented 20-month hiatus caused by the pandemic. The 24th season of NJT opens with the funny and delightful Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor.

Perkinson Center for the Arts and Education presents Illuminated Stage Theatre Company's one-actor play, showcasing the new facility

The Live Arts reIGNITE Season launches with EVERY BRILLIANT THING, a gently humorous and uplifting solo show about depression and resilience where the audience becomes a part of the story.

Oakland Theater Project’s production of Every Brilliant Thing is an attempt to address existential questions of life, death, depression, suicide, and love – exploring why we continue living and what we live for in a deft and humorous way that feels congruent with the experiences of living through a pandemic.

You have just one more weekend to catch this short run of EVERY BRILLIANT THING, a one-man play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre. The Civic's fare is usually large-ensemble musicals, so it was a rare treat to see a play- and one with such a small cast- take the stage for the opening of their 2021-2022 season.

While the show tackles the very serious topics of mental health, depression, and suicide, it is a show filled with humor, joy, and hope. Every Brilliant Thing at Open Stage is an engaging, emotional, and beautiful piece presented with authenticity and candor. For information on this production and others, visit openstagehbg.com

There can be rational decisions to end one’s own life, but when such decisions are driven by most kinds of depression, which by definition are not rational, no one else, especially no one else touched by it, can make sense of it. And no string of “Whys” will bring us closer to an explanation. But comedy can at least supply insight into the dilemma.

Single Carrot Theatre will partner with three community organizations supporting people living with mental illness when the Baltimore-based theatre company returns to live theatre September 3 with Every Briliant Thing. September is acknowledged internationally as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.