IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING SEATING

– This play is presented in-the-round in the Playhouse at Overture Center, with all seating located on the main level. There is no balcony seating for this production.
– If you would like tickets, we highly recommend choosing the “Round Seating” option on Overture.org. This is a new seating section built specially for this production, and offers an excellent view of the play!

SAMARITANS MEDIA GUIDLINES*

*Samaritans Media Guidelines are referred to in Every Brilliant Thing. Here is the list, which is intended for journalists to support informed and safe coverage of suicide. You can learn more about Samaritans here.

• Don’t provide technical details.
• Never suggest that a method is quick, easy, painless, or certain to result in death.
• Avoid dramatic headlines, terms like “suicide epidemic” or “hot spot.”
• Avoid sensationalist pictures or video.
• Avoid excessive detail.
• Avoid using the word “commit.”
• Don’t describe deaths by suicide as “successful.”
• Don’t publish suicide notes.
• Don’t publish on the front page.
• Don’t ignore the complex realities of suicide and its impacts on those left behind.
• Include references to support groups, such as the Samaritans.
• Don’t speculate on the reason. That’s crucial.
• Don’t supply simplistic reasons such as “he’d lost his job” or “she’d recently become bankrupt.”

AN IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING HEALTH AND CONTENT ADVISORIES:

Forward Theater Company offers an advisory about any stage effect of potential concern to patrons’ health. Every Brilliant Thing does not include the use of any physical production elements, such as a strobe effect, an herbal cigarette, gunshots or haze effects.

We don’t offer unsolicited content advisories, as sensitivities vary from person to person. If you have questions or concerns about content or themes, we are happy to provide details. Please leave us a message at 608-234-5001 and we will promptly return your call, or email us at info@forwardtheater.com.