Overview
- Mariska Hargitay has begun a limited engagement at the Hudson Theatre in the solo play Every Brilliant Thing, marking her Broadway debut and a temporary replacement for the original lead.
- She succeeds Daniel Radcliffe, whose run ended on May 24, and will perform through early July before Tracee Ellis Ross is scheduled to begin her own limited engagement.
- Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive, one-actor show that invites audience members onstage to read lines and stand in for characters, so each performance changes with its star and crowd.
- Hargitay says the play resonated with her personal history of childhood trauma and with her work supporting survivors, and she described the transition from TV to live theatre as both exhausting and exhilarating.
- The Broadway mounting reunites the West End creative team and fits a deliberate, star-driven strategy that moves the play from Edinburgh Fringe to Off-Broadway to the West End and now the Main Stem.