Daniel Radcliffe Comes to Broadway

Daniel Radcliffe, the British teen actor that plays 'Harry Potter' in the enormously popular wizard movies, is coming to Broadway with his play Equus for the fall 2008 season.

The play, by Peter Shaffer, starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe received rave reviews when it ran at the Gielgud Theatre, in Londons West End from 16 February 2007.

Producer David Pugh and director Thea Sharrock told London's Daily Mail that after months of negotiation, a Broadway production will start rehearsing in August, with performances to begin in September. There's no word yet on which theater will house the show or how long the stint will last, a rep for the New York production told MTV News.

Radcliffe gave his final London performance in June, and ever since, there's been an online frenzy of fans wondering when the play would open Stateside. In August, Radcliffe told MTV News that the then-proposed production would include himself and Richard Griffiths, who plays Uncle Vernon in the "Harry Potter" movies and also co-starred with Radcliffe in the play's West End run in London, "and however many other castmembers the unions will allow."

"I'm excited," Radcliffe said. "Terrified, but excited."

Radcliffe received a Best Actor nomination from London's Evening Standard Drama Awards for his performance of the disturbed Alan Strang, a seemingly normal 17-year-old who is fascinated by horses but inexplicably blinds six of them with a hoof pick.

"The stage experience was phenomenal," Radcliffe said. "I think it came out at exactly the right time for me. At that stage, it was what I needed to do. And it was great fun. It was fantastic. I met some brilliant people and got to work with Richard Griffiths in a totally different capacity. Because as Uncle Vernon, it's great and we all have a laugh, but he's only normally around for a week, a week and a half. So to spend 16 weeks with him, and to do that character, that was fantastic. And sometimes it's hard to detach yourself from a certain character, after having done the show for 16 weeks. You do get very attached to him, and in a way, you do miss going out and doing it night after night."

But even with the familiarity of having performed the role — which included simulating sex acts — for a live audience in London, he still gets nervous, but not about the nudity. "Once you've been doing the play for two hours, you're so into the character, you're not even thinking about it," Radcliffe told MTV news.

Certainly many of New York's theater queens won't miss this opportunity to see the gorgeous British actor naked on stage when the play comes to Broadway in the fall.