The Stranger Issues stage play, which is already a success in London, will make its Broadway debut within the spring of 2025.
A brand new video teaser publicizes the present’s Broadway debut date: March. 28, 2025. Titled Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, it’s a prequel to the hit Netflix TV collection a couple of group of teenage pals investigating the varied supernatural happenings of their small Indiana hometown. Set many years earlier than the present, it tells the origin of Henry Creel, who ultimately turns into Stranger Issues’ final villain, Vecna.
The trailer asserting the present coming to Broadway — full with loads of glimpses of what you’ll be able to anticipate to see on stage — is under.
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Right here was Netflix’s official description of The First Shadow:
Hawkins, 1959: a daily city with common worries. Younger Jim Hopper’s automotive gained’t begin, Bob Newby’s sister gained’t take his radio present significantly and Joyce Maldonado simply desires to graduate and get the hell out of city. When new scholar Henry Creel arrives, his household finds {that a} contemporary begin isn’t really easy… and the shadows of the previous have a really lengthy attain. Dropped at life by a multi-award-winning artistic crew, who take theatrical storytelling and stagecraft to an entire new dimension, this gripping new journey will take you proper again to the start of the Stranger Issues story – and will maintain the important thing to the tip.
The London manufacturing of The First Shadow has been profitable sufficient that Netflix is reportedly planning to make it the primary a part of a trilogy of stage exhibits based mostly on Stranger Issues. The present hasn’t gotten uniformly optimistic critiques, although; The New York Occasions described the West Finish manufacturing of The First Shadow as “a gaudy, vertiginous fairground experience of a play, precisely what you’d anticipate from a present co-produced by Netflix: Low cost thrills, expensively made.”
Stranger Issues: The First Shadow premieres on Broadway on March 28, 2025; you will get extra info on tickets on the present’s official web site.
