Daniel Radcliffe Is Broadway-Bound

(andPOP) - Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway debut in September when he brings the role of a disturbed stable boy in "Equus" to the Big Apple.

The "Harry Potter" star, 18, has earned rave reviews for his performance in the London stage revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 psychological drama.

The production also attracted a flurry of media attention as Radcliffe, best known as the bespectacled boy wizard in the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling's bestselling series, appears naked onstage and has a sex scene.

Stage veteran Richard Griffiths, who played Uncle Vernon in the Potter movies, will reprise his London role as the court-appointed psychiatrist who treats Radcliffe's character after the teen blinds six horses.

"Equus" is scheduled for a 22-week run at the Broadhurst Theatre and begins previews Sept. 5. Directed by Thea Sharrock, it opens Sept. 25 and runs to Feb. 8, 2009.

Radcliffe has broadened his acting horizons with decidedly un-Potter-like roles, including guest-starring as a bratty, sex-starved version of himself in the second season of Rickey Gervais' "Extras" and playing the soldier son of Rudyard Kipling in the ITV drama "My Boy Jack."

The latter will air on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic" on April 20.