JK Rowling is a household name, thanks to her wildly successful Harry Potter children’s book series. Spawning a multimedia empire that includes what feels like a billion different blockbuster movies, the story of The Boy Who Lived is a major part of our pop culture history and will be forever. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that Rowling expanded her Harry Potter media empire into live theater, to continue the story with the two-part drama Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Wait, A Stage Play? Seriously?

For a franchise that occupied the space of novels and movies for decades, it seems like an odd choice to go with a stage play to continue the story of Harry Potter. Taking place after the final book and movie in the series, Cursed Child is a story of Harry as an adult with children of his own getting ready to attend Hogwarts themselves. It turns out, though (and no spoilers here!) that the move to live theater was an incredibly successful one, as soon as the production opened its doors in London’s West End in 2016 it became a smash hit practically overnight, prompting it to come to the States and take Broadway by storm just two years later!

The Future of The Cursed Child

Now that The Cursed Child has taken over Broadway and set major ticket sales records, there’s a question as to what will the future hold for this next installment of the Harry Potter story. It’s only a matter of time before it starts touring nationally, as there have already been versions of the play that have landed in Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto, Canada.