The Upside Down is expanding its reach.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to Broadway in spring 2025. Performances begin Friday, March 28, 2025, and the show officially opens Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2025, at Marquis Theatre in New York.
Get tickets for the Broadway show now at www.StrangerThingsBroadway.com.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow debuted on London’s West End in December 2023. Tickets for that production at the Phoenix Theatre are on sale through Feb. 16, 2025.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is based on an original story by the Duffer brothers, Jack Thorne (who wrote the screenplay for 2022’s Enola Holmes 2, which stars Eleven herself, Millie Bobby Brown) and Kate Trefry, and rooted in the mythology and world of the Stranger Things series. The new play is written by Trefry, directed by Tony winner Stephen Daldry and co-directed by Justin Martin. The play is produced by Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions. The Duffer brothers act as creative producers, with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen for 21 Laps Entertainment as associate producers.
Curious to see what the play’s all about? Check out the premise below:
“Before the world turned upside down. Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously, and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy … and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.”
To learn more about the show’s plot and how it all leads back to the series you nerds know and love, read Tudum’s official guide here.
The Broadway show will feature set design by Miriam Buether; costume design by Brigitte Reiffenstuel; lighting design by Jon Clark; sound design by Paul Arditti, original music composition, orchestration, arrangements, and supervision by D.J. Walde, and illusions design and visual effects by Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher. Video design and visual effects are by 59 Productions, choreography by Coral Messam; movement direction by Lynne Page; and wigs, hair, and makeup design by Campbell Young Associates. Technical direction is by Gary Beestone for Gary Beestone Associates, and casting is by Jim Carnahan.
Since its premiere, Stranger Things: The First Shadow has snagged two Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play and Best Set Design. The play also received the award for Best New Play at the 24th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards in February. At the Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards, Stranger Things: The First Shadow won the award for Best Set Design and Louis McCartney took home the accolade for Most Promising Newcomer for his performance as Henry Creel.
Casting for the show’s Broadway production will be announced at a later date. Keep coming back to Tudum to find out who will play young Joyce, Bob Newby, Hopper, Henry Creel, and more. In the meantime, get to know the West End’s cast in the video below.
