UPDATED: See video of J.K. Rowling’s surprise visit to the Broadway Cursed Child cast below! Magic is in the air in as the award-winning Harry Potter play sets the stage for its premiere on Broadway this Sunday.  Not only is J.K. Rowling in town for the big event, but the show’s creators and actors are …read more!

In theater news this week, we revisit the unprecedented success of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, reviewing its record-breaking strides in New York after only a month of previews–and the many reasons behind it. We also address Cursed Child’s Tony’s competition as a new production enters into consideration–and one by Sonia Friedman, at that! We …read more!

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!

It’s been an incredibly busy week in the Harry Potter fandom–not that that’s unusual! We celebrated the birthdays of David Thewlis and Gary Oldman, and heard Dan Fogler talk Fantastic Beasts, Brooklyn Gladiator and LeakyCon in his podcast. Where books are concerned, J.K. Rowling’s Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay became available for pre-order, and the final …read more!

Brand new photos of the core cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre released in the latest Vogue magazine, bringing together the Potters, Granger-Weasleys and Malfoys in one nostalgia-packed photo: All eight actors potrayed their respective characters in the original West End version of the show, all except Susan Hayward (Rose Granger-Weasley). Writer Jack …read more!

Would you like to be one of the very first to see Harry Potter and Cursed Child on Broadway? According to the play’s social media channels, then this is your lucky day if you can get on your broom, find your portkey, or disapparate as soon as possible to New York’s newly renovated Lyric Theatre! …read more!

This week in theater news, prominent Harry Potter and the Cursed Child collaborators, including J.K. Rowling, the show’s stars and more, discussed the big move to Broadway in new interviews from the New York Times and Broadway.com. An ocean away, the London production revealed news of its own upcoming changes, which will result in adapted …read more!

This week in theater news, Harry Potter alums joined the call to support 200 inspiring years of theater at the Old Vic as ambassadors headlining numerous programs and special events. New 42nd Street also announced it will award J.K. Rowling the New Victory Arts Award and host a benefit showing of Harry Potter and the …read more!

In an exciting week for theater news, Cursed Child director John Tiffany is among the Queen’s honorees for 2017, and original cast members head for Broadway while the second run continues to dazzle in London. As always, the actors and crew stay busy year-round–sound designer Gareth Fry will host a workshop in February, and Jack …read more!

Obvious to anyone who takes a look at 2017 in the rearview mirror is the fact that Harry Potter and his world continue to remain alive and well today, twenty years after J.K. Rowling first put his story down on paper. His devoted followers assumed they were parting company with the boy wizard when the …read more!