The Stranger Issues stage play that’s presently being carried out in London seems headed to Broadway.
(If that present is known as The First Shadow, possibly that is The Second Shadow?)
The play formally premiered on the West Finish in December of final 12 months. And now, in response to Broadway World, the producers are shifting the manufacturing to New York a while in 2025. The location notes that “the manufacturing will maintain principal auditions in New York Metropolis later this month, with video submissions now open for Fairness actors and stage managers.”
They do word that no official announcement has been made to date.
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Stranger Issues: The First Shadow is an official prequel to the hit Netflix sequence; set inside the continuity of the favored sci-fi present, it options youthful variations of a number of of the principle characters together with Hopper and Joyce, and divulges the origin behind a lot of the sequence’ supernatural mythology and the way Henry Creel turned Vecna.
Right here is how Netflix describes the present’s premise:
Hawkins, 1959: a daily city with common worries. Younger Jim Hopper’s automotive received’t begin, Bob Newby’s sister received’t take his radio present significantly and Joyce Maldonado simply desires to graduate and get the hell out of city. When new pupil 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 group, who take theatrical storytelling and stagecraft to a complete 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.
Whereas Stranger Issues followers who can’t afford to fly to London can be enthusiastic about this information, not everybody was a fan of the present; The New York Occasions stated the manufacturing “pummels the viewers with sensory overload and its lavish finances.”
