Don’t miss your chance to marry Daniel K. Isaac in ‘Every Brilliant Thing,’ a soulful one-person show that’s anything but
Every Brilliant Thing at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, a one-person show starring Billions actor Daniel K. Issac that invites audiences into an intimate theater and then (politely) asks them to be part of the act.Written by English playwright Duncan Macmillan, Every Brilliant Thing began as a short monologue back in ’06—performed by the likes of Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge — and was later fleshed out into a 70-minute piece, which premiered at the Ludlow Fringe Festival in 2013.Since then, various iterations of the play have been produced, and Macmillan invites these productions to take creative liberties with the source, adjusting his script to suit the location and the central performer.In the case of the latter, that’s the aforementioned Daniel K.
Isaac, who brings an easy, lived-in congeniality to the sole cast role, but also his identity as a gay man and second-generation Korean-American.As ‘Billions’ wraps its final season, Daniel K.
Isaac returns to the stage to star in Geffen Playhouse’s “Every Brilliant Thing.”A stage and screen actor who has appeared in everything from queer comedy favorite The Other Two to “Golden Age of Adult Film” period drama The Deuce, Isaac has more than proven himself as a versatile performer, and this show (his LA theater debut) puts his gentle command and elastic range in the spotlight.With a successful run, Every Brilliant Thing extends its time at Geffen Playhouse through October 29, which—coincidentally—is the same night he can be seen in the series finale of financial drama Billions, ending its seven-season run on Showtime.
