Daniel Radcliffe

Shine the Harry Potter signal! Equus, the hit London play starring rapidly budding heartthrob (maybe?) Daniel Radcliffe, will begin previews Sept. 5 at the Broadhurst Theatre, replacing the acclaimed revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Playbill reports that opening night is scheduled for Sept. 25, and the production will play a 22-week engagement through Feb. 8, 2009. Tickets go on sale to American Express Gold Card members on April 12 at 9 a.m. by calling (212) 239-6200 or by visiting www.telecharge.com. Set your alarms, you muggles.

Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter, has closed on a $4.9 million condo at 1 Morton Square, his second downtown apartment purchase in the past year. The New York Times reported the sale two weeks ago, but the deed just appeared in city records today.

The 18-year-old had been renting out the $4.3 million condo on Mercer Street he bought last November.  read more »

So Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe officially signed the contract to bring Equus (and the 10-minute sex scene that goes along with it) to Broadway next year. The New York Post tells us that he had to wrangle with studios over scheduling obligations to the Potter movies to make it happen.  read more »

We won’t be able to see Daniel Radcliffe’s razor sharp nipples in the Broadway production of Equus until September 2008. Bummer.

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Sometimes, with the unimaginable chaos in Iraq half-a-world away, we must turn to young celebrities, like Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, to remind us about the horrors of war. Speaking today about his role in British television’s My Boy Jack, in which he plays pro-war propagandist Rudyard Kipling’s son, Mr. Radcliffe, 18, said: “I think it is as relevant today as it ever was with young men all over the world still sacrificing their lives in the name of war.”

My Boy Jack was aired in the U.K. in conjunction with Remembrance Day; it’s also the subject of an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. In his introduction to the retrospective, the actor explains: “I can’t even begin to imagine what it must have been like in the trenches living amongst the stench of death and knowing that at any moment it may be your last.”

Lest We Forget: Potter star on First World War [Reuters via Yahoo]

Daniel Radcliffe is gonna get naked in New York! The successful London revivial of Equus is coming to Broadway, along with Mr. Radcliffe. He plays the disturbed adolescent Alan Strang, an English stable boy who blinded six horses with a spike. Richard Griffiths, the Tony-award winning stage actor who played his bumbling, meanie uncle in the Harry Potter movies, takes on the role of psychiatrist Martin Dysart, who attempts to discover the source of Strang's psychosis.

According to the Daily Mail, the revival of Peter Shaffer's play will open at a Shubert theater in September 2008:

[I]t took months of negotiations to secure a deal with the theatre-owning Shubert Organisation and for the producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers to sort out all the paperwork for the play's two leading men to perform in New York.

Director Thea Sharrock will begin rehearsals next August.

"We're delighted that New York is now going to witness Richard and Daniel's extraordinary performances," Mr Pugh told me.

Both have special status with the American actors union Equity because of their international reputations, Griffiths through stage work including the Tony award he won for The History Boys and Daniel due to his performances as JK Rowling's adolescent hero Harry Potter.

Although there will be a rush to buy tickets to see Daniel and Griffiths act, there will be those who will just want to see him with his kit off.