Stranger Things: The First Shadow to end its runs on Broadway and the London stage

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The stage adaptation of its biggest hit series will conclude its Broadway run in January and its London West End run in December. “The special effects-filled play, produced by Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions, opened on Broadway in April 2025, after premiering in London in 2023,” says The Hollywood Reporter’s Caitlin Hustin. “But it hasn’t been the same hit in the U.S. as the streaming series. The show, which is a prequel to the Netflix show, drew its highest grosses around the release of the show’s last season in late 2025 (which also coincided with the industry’s lucrative holiday season), reaching a Christmas Week high of $2.5 million. In recent weeks, however, the show has been playing around 60 to 70 percent capacity, and brought in $859,339 last week. The play, which has a cast of more than 30 and is filled with illusions and special effects, suggesting a high weekly running cost, has not announced that it has recouped.”