As reported by Leaky last fall here, Daniel Radcliffe will be making his return to the West End stage in the 50th Anniversary Production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. According to National Theater Live, the play will be broadcast live on April 20, 2017 from the Old Vic Theatre to cinemas around …read more!

Sonia Friedman, the producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has been named Producer of the Year for the third year in a row by the UK theater industry’s publication “The Stage Awards”. The honor was presented at a lunchtime ceremony January 27 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London’s West End. As …read more!

Sonia Friedman, the acclaimed producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is bringing, what she refers to, as an “unusual” musical to the West End this spring. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour follows six Catholic schoolgirls from their imaginary convent in the Scottish town of Oban to a choral competition in Edinburgh. In their …read more!

The UK’s leading theatre website, WhatsOnStage, announced their shortlist for their 17th annual awards last month, and Cursed Child made the list 11 times! Various Potter actors also feature on the list of nominees, and it’s up to the public to vote for the winners in each category. Cursed Child‘s Jamie Parker (who plays Harry Potter) is …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!

A very Happy Birthday to Imelda Staunton, the woman who plays the character we all love to hate, Dolores Umbridge! Imelda turns 61 today, January 9th. Along with starring as our favorite villain (we all know we despised her even more than Voldemort himself at times) in the Harry Potter movies, Staunton has also starred …read more!

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which is currently sold out until February of next year, has extended performances in the West End until April of 2018. 75,000 tickets will be available for purchase for these future shows. Tickets for performances from February 7th, 2018 to April 29th, 2018 will go on sale Monday, January 23rd, 2017 …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!

The producer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Sonia Friedman, has been named the most influential person in the London theater community for 2017 by The Stage magazine, a British publication devoted to the performing arts. Friedman is number one atop the magazine’s annual “Stage 100”, a list of the most prominent people in …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!