Late last night, SnitchSeeker confirmed a Facebook blurb they found a month ago, advertising an open casting call for teenagers for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The call out was for teen girls to audition for the roles of Lily Potter and Rose Weasley. The Facebook blurb, and the site hosting the application process, have …read more!

J.K. Rowling herself has spoken about the casting announcements made yesterday. Noma Dumezweni – a woman of colour – will be playing Hermione Granger! For the most part, the Potter fandom have been the loyal, welcoming and imaginative people they always have been. Some merely argue that this actress wasn’t their personal view of Hermione – and, of course, …read more!

Cursed Child will be hitting London’s Palace Theare next summer, and Daily Mail reporter Baz Bamigboye (@BazBam) just tweeted the names and photos of the actors cast as Harry, Ron, and Hermione! Paul Thornley will be portraying Ron Weasley: Noma Dumezweni as Hermione Granger: And, finally – Jamie Parker as Harry! Here they are together: How exciting! Let …read more!

NME recently released their cover interview with Daniel Radcliffe – which is hilarious as usual – and definitely worth a read. Here are a few extracts: ‘Bouncing into a huge wood-panelled conference room above the photography studio where he’s just been shot for NME’s cover, Daniel Radcliffe is presented with a cup and reaches for the sweeteners. “How many …read more!

Tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child went on sale today, at 11:00 AM,  for those who registered for priority booking. Over 175,000 tickets were sold as of 7:00 PM GMT. There are some tickets that still remain for the first booking period, for performances on July 7, 2016 through September 18, 2016. Producers …read more!

When the news of the eighth Harry Potter story finally being created (and being presented in the format of a play as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), we were surprised that the news didn’t come from Pottermore’s Correspondent. Instead it was released by The Daily Mail. Honestly, it was almost hard to believe The …read more!

UPDATE: See below. Read Melissa. Then scroll down for the Pottermore response. All was well. Yeah, it was. But it isn’t now! Because in the 19-years-later universe of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Albus Severus is clearly about to have some troubles. In the same reeling, excited mania that follows any sort of Harry …read more!

Okay, that slim chance that what we were told in December 2013 was wrong. That, like the Harry Potter encyclopedia transforming into Pottermore, the play had transformed into something totally different than what it was originally intended to be? It happened. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a full blown sequel. The plot of …read more!

Earlier this afternoon, J.K. Rowling and Pottermore released the official artwork for the Harry Potter play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, via Twitter. Besides design and art for the sake of art, the new promotional artwork of the play (which will likely be used for play bills, posters, advertisements, etc.) reveals some details about …read more!

Just minutes ago, J.K. Rowling quietly announced, by clanging her teaspoon against her mug of tea, on twitter, that the London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child would be made into two plays. The first part is simply that–the first part of the story of Cursed Child, not a prequel. Many can assume …read more!