Jonny Donahoe News

Single Carrot Theatre will return to live theatre with Every Brilliant Thing, opening in outdoor venues September 2 and running through September 26.

Five productions are slated for the 2021-2022 season, beginning with Tiny Beautiful Things, running in September and October, 2021. Learn more about the full season here!

Every Brilliant Thing tells the story of one man's journey from childhood to adulthood and his desire to document “every brilliant thing” in the form of a paper list. Tackling issues of mental health, familial relationships, and suicide, Every Brilliant Thing urges its audiences to face difficult conversations head on.

Like an oasis springing up in the Desert after a year of theatrical drought, the award-winning Dezart Performs of Palm Springs (www.dezartperforms.org) returns with a full four-play schedule that brings music, mayhem, mirth and an exploration of mental health to the fore in their 14thSeason. First up is the critically-acclaimed Todd Almond / Matthew Sweet musical GIRLFRIEND (October 27 – 30) taking place outside at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheater.  Kicking off the new year, the company returns to its traditional home at thePearl McManus Theater (at the historic Palm Springs Woman’s Club / 314 S Cahuilla Road, Downtown Palm Springs) with Katori Hall’s THE MOUNTAINTOP  (January 14 – 23), a bold reimagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s final night. Next is Heidi Schreck’sdramatic exploration of compassion and forgiveness as seen through the eyes of a nun in a Bronx soup kitchen, GRAND CONCOURSE (March 4 – 13). Rounding out the calendar is the one-person comedy/drama EVERY BRILLIANT THING (April 1 – 10) by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe and directed by Deborah Harmon. EVERY BRILLIANT THING was originally the final production of the 2020 Season, delayed by COVID. 

Season 14 explores joy and resilience in myriad forms, with a celebration of all of life’s good things in Every Brilliant Thing; DIY theatre put on by two reckless and wild besties in Is Edward Snowden Single; and a revolutionary extravaganza in Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negros, Single Carrot Theatre dances back into the joyful experience of theatre and invites you to gather with us for Season 14: Revelry. 

Tickets will be available on a Pay What You Can system, starting at just £6. A minimum of 25% of every ticket bought for SHEDINBURGH 2021 will go into the SHED LOAD OF FUTURE FUND a fund to support the next generation of artists get to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Learn more about how to purchase tickets here!

TampaRep will present Every Brilliant Thing in an outdoor open-air setting at Ybor City Museum State Park on June 3-12. A generous grant from The Gobioff Foundation enables the theatre company to provide free tickets, though registration is required.

In October, 2019, Open Stage reopened the facility at 25 North Court Street after a half-million dollar renovation, featuring a brand new black box Studio Theater, a modern lobby and bar ( dubbed The Court Street Cabaret), and made a slew of other updates, kicking off a year of performances that looked to be one of the small professional house's strongest seasons ever.

The Tampa Repertory Theatre (TampaRep) will present the hit off-broadway play, EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, LIVE in an outdoor open-air setting at Ybor City Museum State Park for two weekends: June 3-5 and 10-12.

For the first time since closing its doors due to the pandemic in March 2020, Orlando Shakes in partnership with UCF will return to its artistic home inside the Lowndes Shakespeare Center.

The Kitchen Theatre Company, Central New York's Off Broadway theatre, is excited to announce plans for it's 2020-2021 season. a??The Journey to 30: A Celebration of KTC's Past, Present and Futurea?? will offer twenty hybrid and online events and culminate in one live, World Premiere production in June of 2021.

Due to the global pandemic, Courtney Sale, the Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director, and Bonnie J. Butkas, Executive Director, today announced major changes to the schedule for the upcoming season at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. 

The Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia has spent considerable time looking at how they can safely move forward with a 2020/21 season.

The cancellation of this year's Eurovision Song Contest left a continentally huge cultural gap but comedian and Eurovizh fan Tom Taylor has big plans to fill that gap with the very first Isolation Song Contest.

Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT) today announced six of the seven plays for the 2020-21 Season, including the world premiere of Young Americans by Lauren Yee, as well as two of the plays originally scheduled for the current season, according to new Nancy L. Donahue Artistic Director Courtney Sale and Executive Director Bonnie J. Butkas.

Florida Repertory Theatre has announced that two of its canceled productions are now available for online streaming and on-demand in-home viewing for ticket-buying patrons.

Florida Repertory Theatre has announced the opening of 'Every Brilliant Thing' by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe. Playing in the ArtStage Studio Theatre Feb. 28 to Mar. 29, the run includes four nearly sold-out previews Feb. 25 - 27.

Directed by the brilliant Nat Miller and delivered with aching sensibility by Kriston Woodreaux, EVERY BRILLIANT THING is nothing but extraordinary. This heart-gripping play sparks a conversation about life, mental illness, suicide, and human connections and it gives us all a million reasons to appreciate the gift of life.

Ice cream. Water fights. The color yellow. A seven-year-old boy starts a list for his mother. A list of everything that is brilliant in the world a?" all of the reasons to want to live.  

Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan MacMillan, with Jonny Donahoe will make its regional premiere at The Whisenhunt at ZACH, February 5-March 29, 2020 starring Kriston Woodreaux.