“'Brilliance' boasts a wise and dedicated ensemble who exercise their intelligence while recognizing each other’s strengths…”
— Show-Score.com Review
"Brilliance is aligning with the critical reporting of the current news trends, in that, even though Britney Spears has been released from her conservatorship...Amanda Bynes, Demi Lovato and 1.3 million other Americans are still suffering through conservatorships. Our mental health industry is in crisis... and in October 2021, the industry declared a crisis in children's mental health."
— BroadwayWorld.com
“For a brand new show in New York that is packed with story-telling and packed with songs, I thought it was great - a great time - it was fun to see a new show come alive in this city.”
— Tori Sicklick
“Brilliance raises several significant questions about our culture’s dialogue around mental health, particularly the concept of individual and collective responsibility for those who suffer. Though her contemporaries painted Frances as arrogant, truculent, or incapable of helping herself, we are left wondering if Frances was truly “unwell” or just “not well-behaved” by society’s standards—or, more pointedly, if she was driven by that society to self-destruct and then blamed for her response to this oppression.”
— Emily Cordes, Theatre is Easy Article