Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ gets a stage play about Vecna’s origin story

A brand new “Stranger Issues” play will arrive on the Phoenix Theater in London’s West Finish in late 2023, Netflix introduced in the present day. “Stranger Issues: The First Shadow” is a prequel spinoff sport set in Hawkins in 1959, lower than 25 years earlier than the Netflix collection. It’ll characteristic youthful variations of Jim Hopper, Bob Newby, and Joyce Maldonado, in addition to new scholar Henry Creel (aka Vecna), a newcomer to city.

Tickets for the sport go on sale this spring. Followers can enroll in the present day for precedence entry to tickets. foreigncithingsonstage.com. The corporate mentioned that extra particulars on “Stranger Issues: The First Shadow” might be introduced later this month.

This new sport in regards to the world hit collection “Stranger Issues” goes to draw a big crowd because it is without doubt one of the hottest collection on Netflix. The 4th season of the collection, which aired on the broadcaster in Might 2022, grew to become #1 on Netflix’s hottest English TV checklist with 1.35 billion hours of views within the first 28 days.

“Stranger Issues has captured the imaginations of followers around the globe, and we’re extremely excited to develop this thrilling universe with Netflix’s first reside stage manufacturing,” mentioned Greg Lombardo, VP of Reside Experiences at Netflix.

“Stranger Issues: The First Shadow” joins a number of different immersive experiences primarily based on the collection, together with New York Metropolis, the place followers can discover recognizable film units like Hawkins Plaza and Hawkins Lab.

Sequence creators Matt and Ross Duffer recently announced new manufacturing corporations Upside Down Photos. Upside Down Photos will work on a number of initiatives, such because the “Stranger Issues” spinoff collection, in a take care of Netflix.

“We’re tremendous excited for ‘Stranger Issues: The First Shadow,'” the Duffer brothers mentioned. “On a journey into the previous that lays the groundwork for the way forward for Stranger Issues, you may meet new characters which might be each acquainted and wonderful. We’re dying to inform you extra in regards to the story, however we can’t – it is extra enjoyable to find it for your self. I can not wait to see you cows in London!”