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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Tickets

Name: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Start: 2024-09-10
End: 2025-02-01
Location: James M. Nederlander Theatre

Step into a realm of magic, time travel, and unforgettable adventure.

A group of actors performs a scene on stage with a large clock in the background. They are dressed in costumes and holding luggage, suggesting a travel or departure theme.

Two actors in dark robes perform on stage, with one blowing smoke from their ears while the other looks surprised. Luggage is placed on the stage around them.

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Three actors on stage hold an open, glowing book in front of a bookshelf. The actor in the center wears glasses and a vest, flanked by two others in colorful outfits, appearing surprised.

About Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

It's time to believe in magic

Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is coming to a city near you on its first-ever North American Tour. Join the next adventure and experience the wizarding world like never before at this record-breaking, Tony Award-winning hit, hailed as “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade” (Forbes).

When Harry Potter’s head-strong son Albus befriends the son of his fiercest rival, Draco Malfoy, it sparks an unbelievable new journey for them all—with the power to change the past and future forever. Prepare for a mind-blowing race through time, spectacular spells, and an epic battle, all brought to life with the most astonishing theatrical magic ever seen on stage. It’s a “marvel of imagination” (The New York Times) that will “leave you wondering ‘how’d they do that?’ for days to come” (People Magazine).

Run time

2hr 50min. Incl. intermission.

Start date

September 10th, 2024

End date

February 1st, 2025

Venue

James M. Nederlander Theatre

Age

Ages 8+. All persons entering the theater, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child cast and creative team

By: Conceived by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany, written by Jack Thorne
Director: John Tiffany
Producer: Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions
Cast list: John Skelley (as Harry Potter), Ebony Blake (as Hermione Granger), Matt Mueller (as Ron Weasley), Trish Lindstrom (as Ginny Potter), Emmett Smith (as Albus Potter), Ben Thys (as Draco Malfoy), Aidan Close (as Scorpius Malfoy), Naiya Vanessa McCalla (as Rose Granger-Weasley), Julia Nightingale (as Delphi Diggory)
Design: Christine Jones
Lighting: Neil Austin
Costume: Katrina Lindsay
Choreography: Steven Hoggett
Sound: Gareth Fry
Other info: Music & Arrangements by Imogen Heap, Music Supervision & Arrangements by Martin Lowe, and Illusions & Magic by Jamie Harrison

Venue

James M. Nederlander Theatre

24 W. Randolph St, Chicago, IL, United States, 60601

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More information about Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play picks up right where the last Harry Potter film left off: on Platform 9 3/4, where Harry Potter, now married to Ginny Weasley and 19 years past the Battle of Hogwarts, is seeing his son Albus Severus off to his first year at the wizarding school. Albus follows in his father’s footsteps, sharing a train car with a Weasley (rather, a Granger-Weasley, Hermione and Ron’s daughter Rose), but also meets Scorpius Malfoy, Draco’s son.

Whereas Harry and Draco were rivals at Hogwarts, Albus and Scorpius become fast friends. A few years into their time at school, the elderly Amos Diggory, the father of a boy who died while Harry was at Hogwarts, asks Harry to bring him back. Harry refuses, so Albus and Scorpius take on the challenge. They’re launched into a time-bending adventure through the Wizarding World, and as they travel deeper and deeper into the past, their parents soon go after them. Family tensions, old magic artifacts, and dark forces arise — as do some characters that Harry and the others thought were gone for good.

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What to watch for

The original London premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child got 11 Olivier Award nominations, the most a play has ever received. After winning nine of them, the show set a record for most Olivier wins by a play too!

Chris Columbus, who directed the original Harry Potter movies, said in an interview that he’d be interested in directing a film adaptation of Cursed Child and bringing back Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint to reprise their original roles as adults. What spell do we have to cast to make this happen?

Cursed Child transports audiences to the U.K. Wizarding World, but in J.K. Rowling’s universe, there’s a whole U.S. Wizarding World, too! The U.S. has its own magic academy called Ilvermorny, and the U.S. is the setting of the magical adventures in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the Harry Potter film spinoff series starring Eddie Redmayne as magic zoologist Newt Scamander.

Cursed Child uses tons of spellbinding special effects to bring the Wizarding World to life — but we can’t spoil what they are or how they work! You’ll have to see the magic for yourself.