Daniel Radcliffe Shines in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ on Broadway

This is Radcliffe in hyperactive choreographer mode: As the narrator of the frequently participatory “Every Brilliant Thing,” he must cast, and often physically arrange, his audience. He murmurs in one guy’s ear; that man will need to speak a few lines an hour from now. He coaxes a couple into highly visible corner seats, and you know they’ll feature too. Radcliffe is deep into crowd-work by the time the lights dim, so that once he starts the show proper, all of us — from the giddy volunteers to the participation-averse — are already over being star-struck. We’re not fans; we’ve become collaborators instead, a useful attitude to have in an openhearted show about naming and noticing the good.