The ‘Stranger Issues’ play is coming to Broadway

Amid an unimaginable, Olivier Award-winning run on the West Finish, the Upside Down is heading for Broadway, with the Stranger Issues play set to debut subsequent yr.

Based mostly on an unique story by Stranger Issues creators The Duffer Brothers, Stranger Issues: The First Shadow blew audiences away in London after premiering on the Phoenix Theatre in Dec. 2023. A technical marvel and Netflix’s stage debut, the play will open at Marquis Theatre in New York on Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2025.

Directed by Stephen Daldry with Justin Martin, the play was written by Stranger Issues author and co-executive producer Kate Trefry, with a story primarily based on a narrative by Trefry, the Duffer Brothers, and The Cursed Little one‘s Jack Thorne (a lotta people concerned).

The Final Shadow takes you again to the start of the Stranger Issues story in 1959, 20 years earlier than the occasions of the sequence. At Hawkins Excessive Faculty, Indiana, you may meet youthful variations of residents Jim Hopper (performed in London by Oscar Lloyd), Joyce Maldonado (Isabella Pappas), Bob Newby (Christopher Buckley), and Henry Creel (Louis McCartney), who’s struggling to get by highschool not to mention ultimately changing into the villainous Vecna. Casting hasn’t been introduced for the Broadway run, however the solid I noticed in London, who I’ve put in brackets right here, had been completely phenomenal.

Technically, the present is a real stagecraft surprise — there’s plenty of The Cursed Little one alumni right here, together with technical director Gary Beestone, and illusions and visible results designers Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher. Plus, Broadway audiences can be wowed by the beautiful, Olivier-winning set design by Miriam Buether.

As I wrote in my overview of the London premiere: “All in all, Stranger Things: The First Shadow is an exceptional achievement in technical stagecraft, boasting a talented, engaging cast, and showing us an earlier side of Hawkins we’re only given glimpses of in the series. It’s really a story for fans, so newcomers to the franchise might be left a little confused starting with the play. But Netflix’s first stage show proves that Netflix money can transcend mediums, provided a talented group is behind it.”

The technical marvels are well worth the ticket worth alone.
Credit score: Manuel Harlan

How do I get a ticket to the Stranger Issues play on Broadway?

It is clearly the subsequent query, proper?

Now you can register for precedence entry to tickets from strangerthingsonstage.com — signup closes Sept 12, 11:59 p.m. ET. Individuals who have signed up for presale tickets can be emailed with extra info on Sept 13. Normal sale can be Sept 17, 11 a.m. ET.

Tickets to the London present weren’t low-cost and bought extraordinarily rapidly, so anticipate a reasonably penny for these. At current, the West Finish manufacturing has prolonged its run to December 2024.