Mariska Hargitay to Perform Every Brilliant Thing at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley announced Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor Mariska Hargitay will perform in a benefit presentation of the solo show Every Brilliant Thing to kick off TheatreWorks’ 23rd Annual New Works Festival. Hargitay just concluded her Broadway engagement in the show written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe.

There will be three performances of Every Brilliant Thing, August 7-8 at the Lucie Stern Theatre. As on Broadway, the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley performances will be co-directed by Macmillan and Jeremy Herrin.

Proceeds will benefit TheatreWorks and Joyful Heart Foundation, an organization founded by Hargitay that supports survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse, which has a local San Francisco Bay Area Committee.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s New Works Festival gathers nationally and internationally renowned artists in Palo Alto to unveil new plays and musicals in progress. This year’s festival will also include Come From Away composers Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s new musical Vienna, a new twist on the Little Red Riding Hood story fusing traditional Mexican folk music and Mestizo folklore called Roja written by Jaime Lozano and Tommy Newman, and more.

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