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Weekly Round-up: ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Reunion, Dan Fogler’s Reddit AMA & More!

Apr 21, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Columbus, Directors, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Felton, Gleeson, HP Cast, Lewis, Miller, News, Radcliffe, Rankin, Richardson, Shaw, Staunton, Tennant, Thompson, Watson

As Cursed Child prepares for its premiere on Broadway this Sunday (which J.K. Rowling will highly likely be attending), we’ve have many exciting updates in the Wizarding World, including honours for audiobook reader Jim Dale, an interview with Cursed Child lead Jamie Parker, and records broken by the show. We also celebrated World Art Day with discussions on …read more!

Weekly Actors Round-Up: Dan Fogler Talks Fantastic Beasts with Collider, Eddie Redmayne at Stephen Hawking’s Funeral, Potter Alum at Comic Cons and More!

Apr 07, 2018

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Anthony Boyle, Branagh, Events, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Fogler, Harry Potter Round-Up, Herdman, Lewis, Miller, News, Redmayne, Round-Up, Shaw, Television Programmes, Tennant

As always, it’s been a busy week in the world of Potter. Leaky covered interviews with Anthony Boyle and Sam Clemmett as they near the Broadway premiere for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, rumors began circulating of an expansion of Universal Orlando’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter and a release date was announced for …read more!

Theater Round-Up: Oliver Phelps’s Stage Debut, A Meet and Greet with Noma Dumezweni, Anthony Boyle’s Upcoming BBC Programs and More

Mar 26, 2018

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Anthony Boyle, Broadway, Coulson, Directors, Education, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Honors/Awards, John Tiffany, Misc, News, Noma Dumezweni, Phelps, Round-Up, Shaw, Television Programmes, Theater, Theater Round-Up

It’s been a memorable couple of weeks in the world of Harry Potter theater with Cursed Child’s first full week of previews on Broadway. The cast welcomed fans to the newly renovated Lyric Theater for a chance to be the first to see the play on the Great White Way and sat for a stunning …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Emma Watson’s National Geographic Takeover, Alfred Enoch in HTGAWM Season 4 & More!

Mar 09, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Enoch, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Fiennes, Fogler, Gambon, Harry Potter Round-Up, Lewis, News, Oldman, Rankin, Shaw, Sudol, Thompson, Walters, Watson

It’s been another week of big updates, as Gary Oldman and Alexandre Desplat took home Academy Awards,  Cursed Child Broadway opened its first Friday Forty today, and tickets to an exclusive Quidditch Listening Event went up for grabs. We also celebrated International Women’s Day across our social media channels, so head to Leaky’s Twitter, Instagram …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Eddie Redmayne’s Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Unveiled, Tom Felton Talks ‘Ophelia’ At Sundance Festival & More!

Jan 26, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Branagh, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Felton, Gleeson, Gleeson Interviews, Harry Potter Round-Up, Heyman, HP Cast, Jack Thorne, Lewis, Pattinson, Producers, Redmayne, Redmayne Interviews, Round-Up, Shaw, Tennant, Walters, Walters Interviews, Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hollywood

From new ticket releases to Cursed Child to Eddie Redmayne discussing Jude Law as Dumbledore, it’s been another great week for Potter fans, and to top it all off, A Celebration of Harry Potter begins TODAY! Oscar nominations saw a multitude of Potter alumni recognised for their work, and Bloomsbury released their paperback edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to …read more!

Theater Round-Up: WhatsOnStage Awards Nominations and Actors ‘In Conversation’, Radio, and More!

Dec 05, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Branagh, Broadway, Charity, Events, Fandom, Fans, Films, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Henderson, Honors/Awards, HP Cast, Interviews, Movies, Music, News, Round-Up, Sam Clemmett, Shaw, Staunton, Tennant, Theater, Theater Round-Up, Thompson, West End

Harry Potter alums of the film series and stage production are extremely talented and, thus, understandably busy and successful! In addition to a new batch of tickets for the London production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child going on sale Wednesday, December 6, this week sees the announcement of the WhatsOnStage Awards Nominations just …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Emma Thompson Narrates Jane Austen, Eddie Redmayne on LGBT Homelessness & More

Sep 02, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Actor Interviews, Biggerstaff, Branagh, Broadbent, Contests, Davis, Films, Games, Gleeson, Harry Potter Round-Up, HP Cast, Interactive, Interviews, Isaacs, Leung, Lynch, Movies, Murray, News, Pattinson Interviews, Rankin, Redmayne, Redmayne Interviews, Round-Up, Shaw, Tena, Thompson, Watson

It’s been a Grawp-sized week in the world of J.K. Rowling; The Strike TV Series premiered on BBC One with the first two episodes of The Cuckoo’s Calling, fans commemorated “19 Years Later”, September 1, the day the epilogue of Deathly Hallows takes place and Cursed Child begins, and Leaky is providing extensive coverage of all …read more!

Remembering Richard Griffiths on His Birthday

Jul 31, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Actor Birthdays, Actor Interviews, Birthdays, Films, Griffiths, Griffiths Interviews, Melling, News, Pottermore, Radcliffe, Shaw, Theater

Richard Griffiths, the late English stage, film, and television actor, is best known to the Potter fandom as Harry’s intolerant muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley. On what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday, which by the way, he shared with Harry Potter, himself, and his creator, J.K. Rowling, let’s take a moment to look back …read more!

Happy Birthday Wishes to Fiona Shaw

Jul 10, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Actor Birthdays, Actor Interviews, Films, Harry Potter and the Philosophers / Sorcerers Stone, News, Shaw, Shaw Interviews, Television Programmes, Theater

Fiona Shaw, the talented Irish actress known to the Potter fandom as Harry’s Aunt Petunia Dursley, celebrates her 59th birthday today. Most fans are likely not fond of the stony and anxious matron who was continually cruel to our protagonist, but admittedly, Shaw’s portrayal of the character was brilliantly believable. Shaw herself has said that …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Tennant Reminisces ‘Doctor Who’, Emma Thompson’s Greenpeace Campaign & More

Jun 23, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Actor Interviews, Gambon, Gleeson, Gleeson Interviews, Harry Potter Round-Up, HP Cast, Interviews, McCrory, McCrory Interviews, Movies, News, Round-Up, Shaw, Tennant, Thompson, Thompson Interviews

This week has seen many exciting preparations from Pottermore and their Wizarding World Book Club, The British Library and Bloomsbury for the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. In the realm of Potter alumni, Jason Isaacs’s Star Trek: Discovery gave its first preview and announced its release date, Noma Dumezweni was announced to be attending a Grenfell …read more!



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