Burke Swanson plays James Hopper Jr. in Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway. (His character grows up to be chief of police Jim Hopper, played by David Harbour in the Netflix series.) No stranger—pun…

"At the same time, it feels in moments like we've just begun and in moments like I've only ever done this my entire life," Alison Jaye tells The Broadway Show host Tamsen Fadal about Stranger Things: The First …

Love is in the air, and this week's episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal features relationships of all kinds. Celebrate friendship with a performance of "For Good" filmed live in the Broadway.com stud…

Love is in the air, and this week's episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal features relationships of all kinds. Celebrate friendship with a performance of "For Good" filmed live in the Broadway.com stud…

How It Started How It’s Going This time last year, Stranger Things: The First Shadow was in rehearsals for its Broadway premiere.

The production will reopen to audiences on Feb 15.

Theater-goers won’t be able to see Broadway’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow this week – producers have canceled public performances of the prequel drama from tonight to Saturday so they can film the p…

The prequel to the hit series Stranger Things is being professionally filmed for a future release.

Hawkins is returning to your living rooms. According to Collider, Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the prequel play to the Netflix hit, will be filmed this week for a future release on the streamer…

The full original Broadway cast, led by Tony nominee Louis McCartney, will play its final performance together on March 29.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow has announced new principal cast members as the production begins its second year on Broadway. Victor de Paula Rocha will take over as Henry Creel alongside Ayana Cymone as Pat…

The full original Broadway cast, led by Tony nominee Louis McCartney, will play their final performance together later this spring.

Get ready, Hawkins. New principal cast members are getting ready to join the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW as the production begins its second year on Broadway. Vic…

The Tony nominee chats with The Hollywood Reporter before his stage run as the Netflix series villain ends next month, with Victor de Paula Rocha taking over.

What's the 001 thing in the Stranger Things: The First Shadow?

Host Tamsen Fadal sits down with Alison Jaye, who plays the young Winona Ryder role in the Broadway staging of the Netflix smash Stranger Things. Get tickets to STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW: https://www.b…

"At the same time, it feels in moments like we've just begun and in moments like I've only ever done this my entire life," Alison Jaye tells The Broadway Show host Tamsen Fadal about Stranger Things: The First …

Calling all theater kids! Consider this week's episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal our Super Bowl. Read on for the starting lineup, including a halftime show-worthy live performance and plenty of sta…

Tickets for Kids’ Night on Broadway are now on sale. The program returns to New York City on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, with 18 participating Broadway shows. A program of The Broadway League, Kids’ Night o…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 1/25/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

POV its 1959 and you’re warming up for Dark of the Moon

Will it be Virginia Creel or a Demogorgon this evening? That's the life of a swing on Broadway! 🤔

Now THAT'S a quick change

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 f…

The hit Broadway production at the Marquis is celebrating the finale of the Netflix series.

A new block of tickets will go on sale for the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW. Tickets go on sale on January 9 at 10:00AM ET for performances through Sunday, Septemb…

CODE RED NERDS 🚨 Stranger Things: The First Shadow is now extended through September 6 2026. Tickets go on sale at 10 am ET via the link in our bio.

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

Before Stranger Things ever came to Broadway in the play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Broadway performers inhabited Hawkins and the Upside Down in the fan-favorite Netflix series. Familiar faces like Gate…

Broadway is suddenly booming, which is good news for everyone. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” was doing lackluster business all year until… The TV series ends tomorrow night. New episodes dropped on …

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/28/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

When the special effects at a fictional performance of Stranger Things: The First Shadow suddenly went haywire, the cast leaned into the upside-down and dove headfirst into a fever-dream production of Oklahoma!…

The Tony Award-winning Broadway production of STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW broke the 9-performance house record at the Marquis Theatre with a gross of $2,510,948.00 for the week ending Sunday, December 28,…

Stranger Things: The First Shadow broke the 9-performance house record at the Marquis Theatre with a gross of $2,510,948.00 for the week ending Sunday, December 28, 2025. The most Tony Award-winning play of the…

Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with early reports of record-breaking grosses for the holiday period coming in hours before the official numbers are released by the Broadway League this afte…

The cast of Stranger Things: the First Shadow took Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS to the Upside Down with a special performance at this year's Red Bucket Follies! The performance featured nods to Into the Wo…

Stranger Things has officially returned to Netflix for its fifth and final season. While fans tune in this holiday season to find out what's happening in Hawkins, anyone who has headed to the Marquis Theatre re…

Which shows from Broadway past have made the biggest impact on Broadway present? How have the legends of yesterday shaped the stars of today? BroadwayWorld is finding out in our brand new series, The Shows That…

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the stage play prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, first opened at Broadway's Marquis Theatre in April. Now, with season five of the Netflix series wrapping up the mystery w…

The holiday season is bringing Broadway some box office bounty, with grosses for the week ending December 21 totaling $47,437,512, an 8% boost over the previous week. Attendance for the 36 shows was 317,531, ab…

Stranger Things screen star Jamie Campbell gave a surprise performance in Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway December 19, reprising his role from the hit Netflix series as Henry Creel onstage for the…

Audiences are now deep in the dangerous depths of the Upside Down, with the ongoing fifth season of Stranger Things now streaming. Stranger Things 5, which is dropping in three batches, is the epic conclusion t…

The star from the hit Netflix series reprised his role as Henry Creel onstage.

On Friday, December 19, Jamie Campbell Bower surprised audience members at a sold-out performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW at The Marquis Theatre. Campbell Bower…

On Friday, December 19, Jamie Campbell Bower surprised audience members at a sold-out performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW at The Marquis Theatre. Campbell Bower…

On Friday, December 19, Jamie Campbell Bower surprised audience members at a sold-out performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway play STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW at the Marquis Theatre. Campbell Bower…

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…

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 arrival of the TV series’ Season 5. For the week endin…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/14/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Stranger Things has officially returned to Netflix for its fifth and final season. While fans tune in this holiday season to find out what's happening in Hawkins, anyone who has headed to the Marquis Theatre re…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is December 15, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend. NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Here…

Stranger Things has officially returned to Netflix for its fifth and final season. While fans tune in this holiday season to find out what's happening in Hawkins, anyone who has headed to the Marquis Theatre re…

Juan Carlos, one of the original cast members of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, is set to return to the show after recovering from an injury he suffered on stage in June, Deadline reports. Carlos injured hi…

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…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 12/7/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

As video and projection design become more robust on Broadway, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” animator Matt Taylor explains his role.

Natalia Dyer, Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton & Priah Ferguson say hi the Broadway premiere of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. See you at the SHO! #StrangerThings #NancyWheeler #WillByers #ST5

Watch a first look at Hannah Corneau recording 'Built to Last' from the Beautiful Little Fool concept album. This exclusive performance comes from the new album, which also features Jessie Mueller and Ryan Vasq…

Watch a first look at Hannah Corneau recording 'Built to Last' from the Beautiful Little Fool concept album. This exclusive performance comes from the new album, which also features Jessie Mueller and Ryan Vasq…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/23/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions have revealed first look images of the new company joining the Olivier Award-winning production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow The post First Look: New Cast of Stran…

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…

Alex Breaux is no stranger to playing roles that place him in the middle of a small town mystery. In 2019, the Juillard-trained actor took a break from the stage to focus on a few onscreen roles, including a pa…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/16/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 11/9/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape the past…but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are. An original story set in the world of the terrifying Paranormal Activity film fran…

James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape the past…but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are. An original story set in the world of the terrifying Paranormal Activity film fran…

London Theatre Company has released a trailer for The Lady from the Sea, written and directed by Simon Stone after Henrik Ibsen. The production, which is in collaboration with Wouter van Ransbeek, is now playin…

An all new trailer has been released for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production of Paranormal Activity, an original story based on Paramount Pictures’ terrifying film franchise—now live on stage. Check ou…

 In partnership with Blue-i Theatre Technology, a company specializes in providing advanced video services in theatre productions globally, and 59 Productions, an acclaimed design studio, INFiLED delivered an …

STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW will be hosting a special “Hawkins High School Homecoming Week” at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway in honor of Stranger Things Day (November 6th) and in anticipation of the…

Broadway's Stranger Things: The First Shadow takes place 24 years before the events of the Netflix show, so the prequel play is rife with references for fans. It also features 34 people on stage, 50 wigs and, …

Head backstage with STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW standout Burke Swanson. Get tickets to STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW: https://www.broadway.com/shows/stranger-things-the-first-shadow/

Ahead of its highly anticipated first preview tonight, Lincoln Center Theater has released the first production photo from the U.S. premiere of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance Theatre’s Olivier …

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/21/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

2025 Tony Award nominee Louis McCartney and more are scheduled to appear.

STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW will be hosting a panel at New York Comic Con this year titled “Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Bringing Iconic Characters & the World of the Upside Down to Life on S…