Broadway box office was solid and clear-headed last week after the previous week’s lucrative holiday-fueled numbers, with receipts for the 31 productions settling at a solid $34,320,229. That’s a 34% drop from the week that contained New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Attendance for the week…

UPDATE with additional shows and grosses: Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with some record-breaking grosses for the holiday fulfilling producers’ holiday wishes. Among the big performers were Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Ragtime, Just In Time and Harry Potter and the Cur…

Stranger Things: The First Shadow had quite the surprise in store for Friday night’s audience at the Marquis Theatre in New York City. Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Henry Creel a.k.a. Vecna in Seasons 4 and 5 of the series, made his Broadway debut to replace Louis McCartney in the final scene…

Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow saw a jump in attendance and grosses last week, no doubt spurred by the hoopla generated by last month’s highly rated arrival of the TV series’ Season 5. For the week ending December 14, the Broadway prequel filled about 99% of seats at the Marquis, up…

EXCLUSIVE: Juan Carlos, one of the original cast members of Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow, was onstage one evening last June when, just as Act One was coming to an end, he jumped on the set’s revolving turntable as he done night after night since the show began previews in March…

Louis – he pronounces it Louie – McCartney had only recently learned the name of the young actor who, 28 years before McCartney was born in Northern Ireland, won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, becoming the youngest to ever do so. "It was something 'First,'" McCartney tells me, and…

Broadway goes Upside Down with Stranger Things: The First Shadow, opening tonight at the Marquis Theatre and setting a new standard for what’s possible in high-tech spectacle on the legitimate stage. Director Stephen Daldry, playwright Kate Trefry and young star Louis McCartney, invaluably assisted…

Broadway had what appears to be its best non-holiday (Christmas and New Year) week ever last week, with major hits like Good Night, and Good Luck, Glengarry Glen Ross, Othello and longrunners The Lion King, Wicked and Aladdin helping push the total box office figure to $50,874,940 for the week ending…

Netflix has released a trailer for its new documentary about the making of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage adaptation that was a hit on the West End and begins Broadway previews tonight. Check out the Netflix trailer above, and some first-look images from the Broadway play below…

UPDATED, January 24: Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. In addition to the principal cast, previously announced, the 34-member cast will include Janie Brookshire, Kelsey Anne Brown, Malcolm Callender, Ta'Rea Campbell, Juan Carlos as…

Actor Louis McCartney will reprise his West End performance as Henry Creel in the upcoming Broadway production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, producers Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions announced today. McCartney will be making his Broadway debut when the play begins previews at the…

The hit London play Stranger Things: The First Shadow is coming to work its magic on Broadway: Producers Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions announced today the production will begin previews at the Marquis Theatre on Friday, March 28, 2025 and officially open Tuesday, April 22…