The First Shadow’ on Broadway With First Meet-and-Greet Rehearsal Photos

Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions have formally confirmed the total solid for Stranger Things: The First Shadow which is coming to Broadway from Friday, March 28, 2025 for previews, and unveiled the primary pictures of the solid in rehearsals, bringing Hawkins to life on the Broadway stage for the primary time. Following a vastly profitable run on London’s West Finish, the place it gained the Olivier Award for Greatest Leisure, the brand new play — which serves as a sequel to the hit Netflix sequence — is crossing the pond, with the official opening evening set for Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

The total solid for the play has additionally been introduced and it is stuffed with some enormous names we already knew, together with Rosie Benton (Patriots) as Virginia Creel, Alex Breaux (Stranger Things Season 5) as Dr. Brenner, Alison Jaye (Shameless) as Joyce Maldonado, Emmy nominee T.R. Knight (Gray’s Anatomy) as Victor Creel, Gabrielle Nevaeh (That Lady Lay Lay) as Patty Newby, Burke Swanson (Again to the Future: The Musical) as James Hopper, Jr. and Louis McCartney, who’s reprising his position from the West Finish manufacturing as Henry Creel, the younger man who would flip into the villainous Vecna. The images present the solid in “meet and greet” mode throughout rehearsals. The play is written by Kate Trefry, and relies on an authentic story by the Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne, and Trefry herself, whereas three-time Tony Award winner Stephen Daldry (The Inheritance) serves as director.

The Broadway debut follows a record-breaking West Finish run at London’s Phoenix Theatre. Dubbed “a game-changing expertise” by The Day by day Telegraph, the manufacturing obtained widespread crucial acclaim, with The Observer praising its skill to “take theatre to the following dimension.” Along with its Olivier win, it secured awards for Greatest Set Design, Most Promising Newcomer, and Greatest New Play.

What’s ‘Stranger Issues: The First Shadow’ About?

Set three decades before the events of Stranger Things, The First Shadow is an origin story of the Creel household and the darkish entities that appear to plague the city of Hawkins, Indiana. The story follows a teenage Henry Creel as he makes an attempt to get a recent begin, however he finds himself inexplicably drawn to a wave of stunning crimes that pressure him to confront whether or not he’s linked to the horrors unfolding round him. And, like Stranger Issues, it’ll discover these key themes like darkness, loss, neighborhood and the one ship that can never, ever sink — friendship.

Followers desperate to expertise the world of Stranger Issues on stage can safe tickets beginning at $59.75 by way of StrangerThingsBroadway.com. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates on Stranger Issues.