What do Cursed Child playwright Jack Thorne, Academy Award winning composer Stephen Warbeck and Harry Potter / Monty Python‘s John Cleese have in common? They’re all in some way or another involved in or woven into the history of Jack Thorne’s new musical, Junkyard! Jack kindly spoke with The Leaky Cauldron yesterday – the opening night for previews of the production at …read more!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child takes a significant step towards its 2018 Broadway premiere next week. As reported earlier this month by Leaky, tryouts for the Harry Potter play, which has run with much acclaim in London’s West End, are scheduled in New York February 20-22. According to a recent listing on Backstage.com,  now …read more!

It is undeniable that J.K. Rowling and Lin Manuel Miranda are largely responsible for the productions behind today’s most sought-after live theater tickets. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London’s West End was sold out through February 2018 as reported by Leaky. Last month, 75,000 tickets for February through April sold out in just …read more!

The Potterverse is abuzz on the Cursed Child front lately. According to Playbill.com and Broadwayworld.com, an Equity casting notice was posted this week indicating that auditions for the Broadway run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child are scheduled for later this month. The notice states that rehearsals for the play, which is scheduled to …read more!

Sonia Friedman, the award-winning producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is bringing the stage adaptation of the George Orwell novel, 1984 to Broadway this summer.   The play, which was a hit in the U.K. in 2014, is directed by Robert Icke and co-produced by Scott Rudin who has been behind recent films …read more!

Though he’s been working in theater for over 20 years, it took an ambitious play about magic to lift John Tiffany’s name outside the insular walls of the theater community–and the fans and theater are better for it. In an interview with Whats On Stage, Tiffany talks about the impact of Harry Potter and the Cursed …read more!

Christine Jones, Tony Award-winning set designer for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has spoken to Leaky about being among three dozen leaders in the theater community that have created The Ghostlight Project (announced earlier as The Sanctuary Project). On the eve of the launch of the initiative, Jones has shared her vision for the project …read more!

Christine Jones, Tony Award-winning set designer for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is among three dozen leaders in the theater community that have created The Ghostlight Project, previously announced as The Sanctuary Project. On January 19, 2017 at 5:30 pm in each time zone across the country, participating members of the theater community – …read more!

For the entire Harry Potter fandom, which refuses to ever lose hope and fizzle out, 2016 has been an incredibly fulfilling year. When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two opened in theaters five and a half years ago, it was a bittersweet moment for all of us. To see a series most of us grew up with, whose …read more!

Imelda Staunton bewilders as the twisted Professor Umbridge in the Harry Potter series, but in Fall 2017 she will bewitch the stage as Sally Plummer in the National Theatre’s production of the musical Follies. National Theatre Director, Rufus Norris, told Playbill.com: “We are thrilled Imelda Staunton and Janie Dee will return to the National in …read more!