Brokeback Mountain is heading to the West End.
01.03.2023 - 14:41 / deadline.com
Stranger Things is officially coming to London’s West End. Check out a teaser below for the play set a quarter of a century before the Netflix smash.
Deadline revealed last year that Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers were launching a shingle along with the Stephen Daldry-helmed stage play and a multitude of other projects and today’s news is confirmation, with Stranger Things: The First Shadow set to begin its run at the Phoenix Theatre later this year once Paul Mescal’s A Streetcar Named Desire turn comes to an end.
Stranger Things writer Kate Trefry is penning the play based on an original story by the Duffers and His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne.
The play also counts some of the industry’s finest among its director and producer lineup. Acclaimed screenwriter and playwright Daldry is directing with Justin Martin, and 21 Laps is producer alongside the prolific Sonia Friedman Productions and Netflix.
The First Shadow is set in Stranger Things’ home of Hawkins in 1959, around 25 years before the smash hit TV series. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and leave town. When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.
Daldry is understood to have spent a year working with masters of illusion to develop magic tricks and special effects for the play. He set up a series of workshops to help the creative team assess how the effects would look in the production.
“Collaborating with the brilliant Stephen Daldry has been nothing short of inspiring, and Kate Trefry has written a play that is at turns surprising, scary, and
Brokeback Mountain is heading to the West End.
BAFTA-nominated Mike Faist and Oscar-nominated actor Lucas Hedges will star in a London stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s best-selling novel Brokeback Mountain.
Cheryl’s fans were left devastated last night, Sunday 20 March, to learn that she wasn’t taking part in her usual 2:22 A Ghost Story performance.The singer has been starring in the hit West End play since January, but took the night off yesterday – the same day as Mother’s Day. Cheryl’s night off also comes a couple of days before son Bear's birthday on 22 March. Gemma Yates is believed to have filled the Girls Aloud star’s spot for the performance, which appears to have been advertised on A Ghost Story’s website for some time.
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Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown is opening up about her thoughts on possible spin-offs. In a recent interview, Brown, the breakout star of the hit Netflix series, made it clear where she stands when it comes to spinoffs. Brown, who plays the character Eleven, stated that while she’s open to the idea of spinoffs, she believes that the original show should always be the main focus.Millie Bobby Brown expressed her love for the world of “Stranger Things” and the characters that make up its unique universe but emphasized that she wants the show’s legacy to remain intact.
Millie Bobby Brown will make one last stop to Hawkins, Indiana, for the fifth and final season of . It's a bittersweet feeling for the 19-year-old actress, who recently revealed she's «very ready to say goodbye» to the show.In an interview with, Brown opened up about her time on the hit Netflix show she's been a part of since she was 12 years old. The fifth and final season will reportedly begin filming in June, and when it's done, Brown will look back on her time fondly, but also eager to begin another chapter in her budding career.«I'm definitely ready to wrap up.
"Stranger Things" actress Grace Van Dien said she experienced sexual harassment on the set of one of her recent movies, prompting her to put a hold on her acting career. Van Dien, who stars as Chrissy Cunningham in season four of the hit Netflix series, alleged during a Twitch livestream on Tuesday that a movie producer asked her to join in on a threesome.
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Grace Van Dien needs a break from acting.
Grace Van Dien revealed she is taking a break from acting after dealing with sexual harassment on a movie set.
“Stranger Things” Season 4 started with a shock last year, with (spoiler alert) Grace Van Dien‘s Chrissy possessed and killed by Vecna in the first episode. Van Dien isn’t in the show long, but her connection with Joseph Quinn‘s Eddie set up a lot of the season’s later emotional turmoil.
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, said she encountered sexual harassment while working on one of her last movies and therefore will take a step back from acting.During a live stream on Twitch, the 26-year-old actress said she's turned down at least four movies in the last two and a half weeks after a producer allegedly asked her to join her in a threesome. Instead, Van Dien said she'd rather spend time on Twitch, where she can control her own environment.«Here's the thing: I've seen that some people are upset with me for turning down acting projects and deciding to stream more, but the fact of the matter is, the last few projects I've worked on, I didn't have the best experiences with some of the people I had to work for,» she said (via ).
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Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn has called out online trolls for bullying his co-star Grace Van Dien.The actor played the fan-favourite character Eddie Munson in season four of the hit Netflix series and shared his early scenes with Van Dien, who played cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham in the first episode.After the last season was released in July 2022, Van Dien found herself the subject of relentless negative comments.Quinn addressed those comments during a live Q&A at Showmasters’ London Comic Con over the weekend, calleing the harassment “awful”.He said: “I was talking to her about it. The internet is a very unforgiving place.
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A stage adaptation of Stranger Things is coming to the UK later this year, and producers have revealed it will be a prequel to the series. Set more than 20 years before the events of Netflix’s hit sci-fi drama, London’s West End production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow will follow existing characters Jim Hopper, Bob Newby and Henry Creel when they were younger.