‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Turning Into One-Part Show
The West End‘s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will “evolve into its reimagined format” and now serve as a single performance.
The production’s decision to turn the two-part stage extension of J.K. Rowling‘s Potter-world into one aims at making the show more accessible to allow “even more audiences to experience the story with one ticket and one visit to the theatre,” said a press release from producers Sonia Friedman Productions, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions on Wednesday.
The play, penned by Adolescence screenwriter Jack Thorne, will now have a runtime of two hours and 55 minutes and deliver the entire story in a single performance — the version of the show currently performed by companies around the globe, including the Broadway production in New York City since 2021.
Booking for the two-part production has now extended through Sept. 20, 2026. The one-part production will reopen at London’s Palace Theatre on Oct. 6.
Producers Friedman and Callender said: “When Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered in the West End in 2016, it redefined what was possible in the art of stagecraft. This July, the production celebrates its 10th anniversary, an unprecedented milestone for a play performed in two parts, and we are immensely proud of the indelible mark it has made on the theatrical and cultural landscape over the past decade.”
They add that it felt like “the right time to make the production more accessible than ever before. Now running at under three hours, the reimagined production retains its scale, illusions and theatrical magic, and emotional depth, while allowing more audiences to experience the story in a single visit.”
When the show opened in 2016, it was the recipient of a record-breaking nine Laurence Olivier Awards. Amassing over 8,000 hours of performance time in London over the last 10 years, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has now been seen by 2.2 million people, including over 300,000 first-time theatregoers.
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