‘The First Shadow’ Coming to Broadway! Play Based on Netflix Hit Sets New York Dates

Performances will begin on Friday, March 28, 2025 at the Marquis Theatre, with the official opening on Tuesday, April 22.

<p>Manuel Harlan</p>
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Broadway is close to settling the score unknown.

This is because Stranger Things: First Shadow — the critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning play based on the popular Netflix series Strange things — next year will move to the Big Apple for the great 2024-2025 season.

The producers announced the decision on Tuesday, August 6.

Performances will begin Friday, March 28, 2025 at the Marquis Theatre. The official opening will be Tuesday, April 22.

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Based on an original story by Strange things creators, directors and executive producers Duffer Brothers, as well as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne and Strange things writer and co-executive producer Kate Trefry, Stranger Things: First Shadow has its roots in the mythology and world established in the streaming hit phenomenon.

The story transports viewers to Hawkins, Indiana, just decades before the 1980s-set series begins. Instead, it’s 1959, and Jim Hopper, Jim Hopper (later Byers), and Bob Newby — first portrayed on screen by David Harbour, Winona Ryder, and Sean Astin — are college students themselves, facing a series of everyday challenges.

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“Stranger Things: First Shadow”

Their lives are soon turned upside down, well, upside down, when new student Henry Creel arrives. A name that will certainly resonate with Strange things fans. He later becomes the series’ ultimate villain, Vecna (introduced in Season 4 and played by Jamie Campbell Bower).

Henry’s family, according to the synopsis, “finds that starting over isn’t so easy… and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.”

And returning to the beginning of the story, the synopsis continues: “may hold the key to the end.”

Related: ‘Stranger Things’ prequel to hit Netflix series announced for London premiere in 2023

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“Stranger Things: First Shadow”

Stranger Things: First Shadow is currently playing at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Tickets are on sale now until February 2025.

Tickets for the Broadway transfer go on sale Friday, September 17 at 11:00 a.m. ET. An early pre-sale will begin at the same time Friday, September 13 for those who register on the show’s official website.

The Broadway cast has not yet been announced, but as in London, the production will be directed by renowned film and theatre director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, Crown, Very loud and incredibly close). Justin Martin co-directs.

Trefry is the author of the series’ script.

*Brad Torchia/Netflix Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer and Kate Trefry*

The Duffer Brothers are credited as creative producers, while Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen (both executive producers) Strange thingsfor 21 Laps) are listed as associate producers.

The production team also includes Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions.

Meanwhile, production on Season 5 began in January. The following month, Levy gave PEOPLE a cryptic teaser for the series’ highly anticipated finale.

“If I was a fan who had nothing to do with Strange things“I assume the final season will be big,” said Levy, 55. “But I would also like to point out that the heart and soul of this show, the characters, are intact and are as central to the show as the show.”

“And indeed it is so,” he added.

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