In this week’s theater round-up, Evanna Lynch not only saw continued success for her current project, Disco Pigs, but she also visited another Off-Broadway stage for a return to the magical world. Eddie Redmayne found himself in the theater as well, charmed back to Hogwarts–perhaps missing J.K. Rowling’s enchanting story now that shooting on his …read more!

The cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is returning to Hogwarts! It’s now located on New York’s Great White Way, and we can feel the reverberations across America. Like gifted Legilimens,  we sense the magic reviving as announcements reveal that rehearsals for the Broadway production have officially begun–“and it feels brilliant to be …read more!

In theater news this week, Evanna Lynch’s Disco Pigs moves to New York City and opens off-Broadway, Jack Thorne comments on his new television series Kiri and considers his next dramatic subject, and Anthony Boyle goes back in time–sans time turner, thank goodness!–to join a new comedy about teens in Northern Ireland. Evanna Lynch’s Disco …read more!

Though Eddie Redmayne looks like he may have struck a deal with Nicholas Flamel while in Paris last year, he actually celebrates his 36th birthday today! The ever-youthful actor has been involved in the dramatic arts since childhood and won his first professional theatrical role at the age of 20. Since that time he has …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!

Jude Law first came onto the Potter scene in April with the announcement that thrilled the fandom–he would portray the young Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts sequel, now named Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. We must wait one excruciatingly long year before the film hits theaters and we get to see Law in action as …read more!

Big holiday news from  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Broadway announced today. After tickets for the upcoming New York production of the play sold out in a matter of hours earlier this fall, more tickets will be released on February 7, 2018 at 11AM ET for performances from March 16, 2018 to March 9, 2019. …read more!

BroadwayWorld UK announced the winners of their annual theater awards early this morning, and two Harry Potter actresses have come away with big wins! Shirley Henderson won the Best Actress in a New Production of a Play award for her mesmerizing immersion into the role of Elizabeth in the musical Girl From the North Country. …read more!

If J.K. Rowling is the muse and Jack Thorne the inspired scribe, then John Tiffany is the visionary behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Or rather, and perhaps more fittingly, the magician. He conjured an experience out of a screenplay, opening the door to a world of wizardry and fantasy that, all the same, …read more!