Duncan MacMillan News

Every Brilliant Thing will be performed in Squamish this year. Performances run at the Eagle Eye Community Theatre March 16, 2022 - March 26, 2022.

Every Brilliant Thing will be performed in Squamish this year. Performances run at the Eagle Eye Community Theatre March 16, 2022 - March 26, 2022.

Rehearsal images are released for the highly anticipated upcoming production of George Orwell’s classic satirical fable, Animal Farm, adapted and directed by the multi award-winning Robert Icke (The Doctor, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984).

Producing Artistic Director Evan Hoffmann has announced NextStop Theatre Company's new schedule of shows for the first half of 2022. The new schedule represents the gradual return and ongoing expansion of the organization's productions following the pandemic, as well as a continuation of their longstanding commitment to offering a diverse array of theatrical styles and stories, in and for the Northern Virginia community.

From January 7 to February 5, 2022, SpeakEasy Stage Company will present the New England premiere of PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS, a raw, heartbreaking, and devastating drama about addiction, recovery, and surviving the modern world.  

Following the celebratory reopening of Birmingham Rep this autumn with critically acclaimed productions of East is East, the brand new musical What’s New Pussycat? and the presentation of Grenfell: Value Engineering, Artistic Director Sean Foley announces a new collection of work to follow his own production of the classic comedy The Play What I Wrote.

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

An empty stage is all the stands before us, at its center a girl on the floor in a daydream, or just merely sleeping. After a few brief moments of staring at her like we’ve just seen an accident that we cannot turn away from; the lights dim and she awakens. “I am here, your Magician.” A few moments later the Magician recognizes us as her audience and brings us into her sweeping tale of love, tragedy, and imagination.

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.

A new entertainment company, Second Half Productions, has been launched today by Jeremy Herrin, Alan Stacey and Rob O'Rahilly. It will bring together world-leading artists to create innovative work for both stage and screen.

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.

Full casting and the complete tour schedule are announced for the highly anticipated upcoming production of George Orwell's classic satirical fable, Animal Farm, adapted and directed by the multi award-winning Robert Icke (The Doctor, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Oresteia, 1984).  

Artists Rep's Board of Directors, along with Executive Director J.S. May and Managing Director Kisha Jarrett,  have begun succession planning and are collaborating to ensure a smooth artistic leadership transition. In the midst of the transition, the non-profit organization launches its return to in-person production with its 39th season of intimate, provocative theatre.

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.