Stranger Things due in West End as stage spinoff of Netflix hit announced

Based on an original story by the Duffer Brothers, Kate Trefry and Jack Thorne, Stranger Things: The First Shadow promises ‘a journey into the past’

After a dance-theatre version of Peaky Blinders and a musical of The Great British Bake Off, Netflix’s Stranger Things is the next TV hit to become a hot-ticket stage show.

A new play, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, will receive its world premiere later this year at the Phoenix theatre in London’s West End. The script is by Kate Trefry, a writer on the TV series, and is based on an original story by Trefry, the series’ creators the Duffer Brothers, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playwright Jack Thorne. It will be directed by Stephen Daldry.