In this week’s theater round-up, Cursed Child features predominantly yet again, though not because of the Potter production alone. Magic, after all, is found on many theater stages. Samuel Blenkin and Steven Hoggett joined the stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Cursed Child producer Colin Callender invested …read more!

Leaky writer and correspondent Gianfranco Lentini was on site in California yesterday for the magical opening of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child San Francisco production. From red carpet interviews with producers Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman, inside footage of the Curran Theater and the spectacular curtain call to the star-studded after party and …read more!

This weekend, Tony and Olivier Award winning play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will open at the Curran Theater in San Francisco. To celebrate the arrival of the play in the San Francisco Bay Area, the production will host a citywide Cursed Child challenge TOMORROW, November 29th. The contest will give those in the Bay area the chance …read more!

In this week’s theater round-up, we have news of an exciting Kenneth Branagh revival, an award nomination for Cursed Child composer Imogen Heap, casting news for Rhys Ifans and an opportunity to experience Cursed Child through the new behind-the-scenes book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: the Journey or by bidding to win two tickets …read more!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is opening its first non-English production in Hamburg, Germany in Spring 2020. Recently, the production’s social media accounts allowed us to meet the main cast, and we’re hugely excited to see their take on the characters next year! View this post on Instagram Es ist soweit! ? Wir sind unglaublich stolz und aufgeregt, …read more!

In this week’s wide-ranging theater news, Jack Thorne discusses his adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, which aired in the UK yesterday and premieres in the U.S. today, John Steiger talks about playing Scorpius Malfoy in the San Francisco production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and master magician James Harrison shares insight …read more!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey is now available, and we’re absolutely loving our copy! Take a look at some of the revelations and interviews included in the book below: Aside from having a foreword by J.K. Rowling, who speaks of her pride in the team for having executed an idea she never would …read more!

This week’s theater round-up covers this release of first-look photos for the San Francisco cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and includes the new trailer for Cursed Child featuring the London cast. It goes on to recap updates on alums’ other projects, including Jamie Parker’s 1917 and Jack Thorne’s The Accident and His …read more!

Big news from the Wizarding World as we headed into October. Pottermore has hopped into the Floo Network and arrived at their new online home at WizardingWorld.com and announced the unveiling of the Harry Potter Fan Club and new Sorting Ceremony! J.K. Rowling wrote a letter to the EU on Brexit, her charity Lumos revealed …read more!

Welcome to Leaky’s recap of the opening days of New York Comic Con, Potter fans! NYCC 2019 got off to a bit of a slow start on Thursday, Oct. 3 with huge crowds and some rainy weather, but none of that deterred the throngs of devoted fans, including Leaky correspondent Gianfranco Lentini. Protected by house …read more!