Archive for the ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Category

The Magical 19: Jack Thorne Productions, Theater Outreach, and Musicals!

Sep 05, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

19 Years Later, Branagh, Broadway, Charity, Coltrane, Events, Henderson, HP Cast, J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, News, Round-Up, Smith, Smith Interviews, Television Programmes, Theater, Theater Round-Up, Walters, West End

Potter fans the world over have been celebrating Harry’s story “19 Years Later” throughout the last week. From LeakyCon to Cursed Child videos and meet-ups, the epilogue to J.K. Rowling’s magical series, now a veritable classic, has been fondly commemorated. Since the development of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child stage production, fans have been …read more!

Cursed Child’s Anthony Boyle in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Biopic and the IARA Awards

Sep 04, 2017

Posted by: Ashley Kurtz

Anthony Boyle, Broadway, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Honors/Awards, News, Theater, West End

Big news today for Anthony Boyle; the original  Scorpius Malfoy in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child!  He’s not only making the transfer from Cursed Child in London’s West End all the way across the pond to Broadway’s Lyric Theater, as covered here by Leaky, but he’ll be entering an entirely different sort of magical world. Boyle, who took home the Olivier …read more!

19 Years Later: Sending Albus, Scorpius and Rose to Hogwarts

Sep 01, 2017

Posted by: Ashley Kurtz

Book Seven, Fun, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Info, J.K. Rowling, LeakyCon, MinaLima, Misc, News, Theater, West End

After years of reading and falling in love with J.K. Rowling’s world, we end up here: 19 Years Later, the epilogue. We’ve watched them go through everything imaginable; Deatheaters, Tri-Wizard Tournaments, the Philosophers Stone – just to name a few, and here we stand. September 1st, 2017 on a platform once again…waiting for the train …read more!

Theater Round-Up: Sonia Friedman’s ‘Travesties,’ Jack Thorne’s ‘Kiri,’ and More!

Aug 22, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Broadway, Charity, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, HP Cast, Jack Thorne, Music, News, Producers, Round-Up, SetReports, Sonia Friedman, Television Programmes, Theater, Theater Round-Up, West End

Sonia Friedman Productions is hotter than a cat on a tin roof! Leaky has been closely following the transfer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to Broadway, reporting on cast announcements and ticket information. We’ve also covered the exciting speculation that two of Friedman’s other productions, The Ferryman and Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, …read more!

More Information on “Verified Fan” and Other Potter Theater News

Aug 14, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Broadway, Directors, Fans, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Interviews, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, Movies, News, Round-Up, Sonia Friedman, Theater, Theater Round-Up, Trailers, West End

This week from the world of theater, we have info on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tickets on Broadway, a new trailer for Jack Thorne’s screen adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s YA Novel Wonder,  Anthony Boyle’s Stage Debut Award nomination and a recent interview with Cursed Child director John Tiffany. Ticket Information for Harry Potter …read more!

Happy Birthday to LeakyCon 2017 Special Guest Katie Leung

Aug 08, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Actor Birthdays, Actor Interviews, Birthdays, Celebration of Harry Potter, Conventions, Events, Fan Events, Fandom, Films, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, LeakyCon, Leung, Leung Interviews, News, OotP Film, Television Programmes, WIzarding World of Harry Potter Orlando

Katie Leung, the Scottish film and stage actress best known to Potter fans as Harry’s first love interest Cho Chang, celebrates her 30th birthday today. As reported here by Leaky, Leung will also be a special guest at this year’s LeakyCon in Dublin, Ireland Aug 31-September 3 along with fellow Potter alumni Evanna Lynch who …read more!

Jack Thorne To Re-write ‘Star Wars: Episode IX’

Aug 03, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne, News

News recently broke that Jack Thorne – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playwright – will be helping with re-writes on Star Wars: Episode IX. This process will see Thorne take Epsiode IX’s director Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s original script and offer ‘a fresh set of eyes’ before production begins. The Hollywood Reporter – the first to report on …read more!

Breaking News: Cursed Child NYC Cast and Ticket Announcements!

Aug 02, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

BigNews, Broadway, Casting, Fandom, Fans, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, News, Noma Dumezweni, Theater, West End

Since the first report of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s transfer across the pond to the Great White Way, fans have anxiously awaited news of the production moving forward–and that news has finally arrived! Cursed Child NYC tweeted a series of huge announcements earlier today regarding the Broadway cast and ticket sales. The first …read more!

London Is Open: ‘Disco Pigs,’ ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ ‘Road,’ ‘Pinocchio,’ ‘Cursed Child,’ and More!

Aug 01, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Branagh, Broadway, Fiennes, Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Henderson, HP Cast, Interviews, J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, Leung, Lynch, Music, News, Round-Up, Sonia Friedman, Staunton, Theater, Theater Round-Up, West End

Many of the West End’s most popular running shows banded together last week to support London mayor Sadiq Khan’s #LondonIsOpen campaign. The shows, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, created videos aimed at encouraging visitors to discover the magic of live theater. According to Broadway World, Khan also issued the following invitation: “Whether you’re looking for fringe …read more!

‘Cursed Child’ Celebrates 19 Years Later with Special 400 for 40 Friday!

Jul 28, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

BigNews, Contests, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, News, Theater, West End

September 1, 2017 is the actual date that the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ends and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child begins. To mark this momentous occasion in the Potterverse the Harry Potter Play will be celebrating by making 400 tickets available at £40 each (£20 per part) next Friday, August 4 …read more!



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