Shows · Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Opened 2018

2,231 performances

Musical, Contemporary

The Lyric Theatre, where it played in 2018. Tarquin Binary

Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter is an overworked Ministry of Magic employee struggling to connect with his younger son Albus. When Albus befriends Scorpius Malfoy and the two boys steal a Time-Turner to try to change the past, they accidentally create terrifying alternate timelines that threaten to unravel the very fabric of time itself.

Music: Imogen Heap
Book: Jack Thorne

Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End

2016

ProductionLondon Opened June 8, 2016

2018

Lyric TheatreBroadway Original, opened April 22, 2018, directed by John Tiffany

2,231 performances

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story by Thorne, J. K. Rowling, and John Tiffany. The plot occurs nineteen years after the events of Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It follows Albus Severus Potter, the second son of Harry Potter, now the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic. When Albus arrives at Hogwarts to get sorted into Gryffindor, he gets officially sorted into Slytherin and feels unable to live up to his father's legacy, making him resentful of his father. From its premiere, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has received mostly positive reviews from critics for its performanc…

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