Netflix’s Stranger Issues Play is ...

Netflix doesn’t have an official date for the final season of Stranger Things, but it surely’s obtained one thing to tide over followers within the upcoming play, First Shadow. The prequel simply started its preview run this weekend forward of its full launch in April, and meaning it’s time to start out hyping it up. Netflix has supplied two new screenshots for the Broadway manufacturing, which present Louis McCartney as Henry Creel—aka One, aka Vecna—utilizing his powers and making contact with the Thoughts Flayer.

Along with that, Netflix introduced an upcoming documentary protecting First Shadow’s manufacturing earlier than its West Finish opening evening in December 2023. Alongside a seal of approval from Stranger Issues creators Ross and Matt Duffer, the West Finish present opened to important acclaim and later gained two Olivier Awards for set design and leisure of comedy or play. McCartney himself additionally took house a Stage Debut Award for Greatest Performer in 2024.

Set in 1959, First Shadow sees the 15-year-old Creel as he and his household have simply moved to Hawkins for a contemporary begin. Initially, Henry’s capable of make associates, be part of the varsity play, and cross paths with teenage variations of future Stranger Issues mains like Hopper and Joyce. Issues get extra sophisticated when bizarre crimes begin occurring across the metropolis, which can be linked to his powers. Together with McCartney, the Broadway solid consists of Alison Jaye, Burke Swanson, and T.R. Knight.

In a Tudum weblog, director Stephen Daldry mentioned the problem of “making a visceral expertise for the viewers, the place they really feel shock and awe, shock and delight. It’s a must to ship that. The fusion of tv and theater is in regards to the pace of narrative and the way you create it … There are moments in First Shadow the place you’ll assume: I don’t perceive how they did that.”

Behind the Curtain will hit Netflix on April 15, every week earlier than the play opens on the Mariott Marquis Theater on April 22. You should purchase tickets here.

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