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Bruh Rabbit Brilliantly Reclaims and Reimagines an Important Piece of Black Folklore

Like all mythic trickster beings who live in stories people tell one another, Brer Rabbit is a character whose precise origins are difficult to pin down. But his folklore roots are deeply intertwined with the history of black Americans whose ancestors who survived the middle passage and were brought to the country in bondage. There…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 27

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Open in the US on April 22, 2018

We knew this play was coming, but now we have an official opening date. The Cursed Child, the closest thing to a Harry Potter sequel we’re likely to get, will open at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre on April 22, 2018. In the first announcement, we were told that the theater would be remodeled partly to accommodate…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta May 4

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Sweeps the UK’s Version of the Tonys

Much like Broadway does with the Tonys in the U.S, the Society of London Theatre issues Olivier Awards to recognize the United Kingdom’s best theatrical productions. This year, they pretty much all went to Harry Potter: The Next Generation. While Harry Potter and the Cursed Child didn’t win everything it was nominated for, it got…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Apr 10

What Was Your Favorite Pop Culture Moment of the Year?

For the last two weeks, we’ve shared with you our best and worst lists—TV, comics, books, etc. And now we want to know, if you had to pick one moment from any medium from 2016, which one would be your favorite? For the top image, I went with the one moment we use here as…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 28

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Makes Plans to Hit Broadway in 2018

Not that a play on Broadway is any more accessible for most people than one in the West End, but at least we finally know when and where Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is headed. The plan is for the show to open in the Lyric Theater in thespring of 2018, right after the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Dec 1

Even J.K. Rowling Can’t Get the Harry Potter Timeline Right

It’s September 1, which, as we all know, is the day that fictional British wizarding children find themselves on the Hogwarts Express, heading back to school. It’s also September 1, 2016, which isn’t a special day at all… but everyone got confused about that this morning, thanks to J.K. Rowling. Earlier today, Rowling tweeted out…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Sep 1

The 9 ¾ Most WTF Moments in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is like pure Potter concentrate; that is to say, the plot twists come thick and they come fast, and they are all pretty much ridiculous. Here are the absolute craziest moments from the new play—some awesome, some outrageously horrible, but all of them completely insane. [Author’s note: I want…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Aug 2

Here’s What Has Happened in the Wizarding World Before Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Begins

The play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been in production for a bit, but the script was released in book form yesterday. The plot is full of big revelations, but we’ve decided to focus on the information that isn’t actually a spoiler—just some the events that have occurred in-between the end of Deathly…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Aug 1

Grown-Up Harry Potter Is Tired of All This Wizarding Crap in the First Cursed Child Play Pics

We have the very first photos of the Potters in the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play. Ginny (Poppy Miller) looks like a perfectly normal adult, Albus Severus (Sam Clemmett) looks like an average Hogwarts student, and Harry (Jamie Parker) very much looks like he’s ready to toss this whole wizarding thing in a…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta May 31

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Be a Sequel About Harry and His Middle Child

Along with the first official artwork, details about the plot of the forthcoming two-part Harry Potter play have been revealed. It sounds like Albus Severus has inherited a few too many things from his father. From Pottermore comes this description: It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Oct 23

The Harry Potter Play Opening Next Year Won’t Be a Prequel

We’ve known that J.K. Rowling was working on a play, but now we know for certain that it will open next year. And that, contrary to earlier speculation, it’s not a sequel. Rowling revealed that the play was written with Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, and it will bear the name Harry Potter and…

Books & Comics Katharine Trendacosta Jun 26

David Bowie’s Turning The Man Who Fell to Earth Into a Play

This winter, Lazarus, based on The Man Who Fell to Earth, will premiere off-Broadway. It’ll have new songs by David Bowie as well as new arrangements of the original songs. Sadly, though, Bowie himself will not be reprising his role as alien-inventor Thomas Jerome Newton. Adapting the script for the stage is Irish playwright Enda…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Apr 3

Disney wants to adapt Princess Bride for the stage

Disney is toying with the idea of a Princess Bride “stage adaptation.” Please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck. EW says Disney aims to adapt Princess Bride as a stage production, but no clue whether or not this…

Movies Meredith Woerner Nov 11

Terminator 2 reenacted entirely with lines from Shakespeare

Terminator 2 and William Shakespeare: What could be better? This trailer for the stage production Terminator the Second shows us what happens when you blend robots from the future with the Bard. More than two years ago, Nashville performance collective Husky Jackal Theater launched a Kickstarter campaign to perform and film their parody performance. The…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 22

Watch Val Kilmer morph into Mark Twain — YIKES

Val Kilmer gave the world an inside look into his makeup-heavy transformation for his one-man play Citizen Twain. Which we then turned into a fairly terrifying gif. Watch as Batman becomes the be-joweled Samuel Clemens. Thanks to Val Kilmer for posting all these selfies on his twitter.

io9 Meredith Woerner Aug 16

After you’ve defeated the alien invaders, the hard part begins

In “Sovereign,” the final act of Mac Rogers’ epic alien-bugs vs. humanity Honeycomb Trilogy of plays, we learn that rebuilding the world from the ashes is much harder than leading the resistance. What happens after you’ve won the battle for the post-apocalypse? I was thrilled by the trilogy’s middle chapter, “Blast Radius,” a production that…

io9 Kaila Hale-Stern Jun 29

How To Train Your Dragon‘s stage show will feast on Spider-Man’s Broadway entrails

Now this is a movie-inspired kids stage show we’d pay money to see. Check out the first ever footage form the Melbourne stage production of How To Train Your Dragon. The production looks a lot like the very popular traveling show, Walking With Dinosaurs, only with dragons. This is not a bad thing. So, when…

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 8

Coolest Shakespeare Riffs in Science Fiction and Fantasy

With The Tempest, opening tomorrow, Julie Taymor and Helen Mirren bring a splashy fantasy vibe to the Bard. But science fiction and fantasy have been playing with Shakespeare forever. Here are the greatest Shakespeare homages and cover versions in SF. Romeo And Juliet: The War: Stan “The Man” Lee’s latest project, this comic retells the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Lauren Davis Dec 9

U2’s $50 million Spider-Man musical hits the stage in November

The troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will open Nov. 14th at the Foxwoods Theater. Now they just need to sell out the house every night until 2015 to recoup expenses. Image via The L Magazine. [LA Times]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 11

U.S.S. Pinafore is the very model of a modern Star Trek-Gilbert & Sullivan mash-up!

Why didn’t somebody think of this long ago? U.S.S. Pinafore enlists Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera in Starfleet, with amazing results. If you’ve ever wished Little Buttercup’s libretto included tribbles and Saurian brandy, then watch the trailer below. More information than you ever needed to know about what a mind probe really entails. This absolutely…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 28

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Bruh Rabbit Brilliantly Reclaims and Reimagines an Important Piece of Black Folklore

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Open in the US on April 22, 2018

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Sweeps the UK’s Version of the Tonys

What Was Your Favorite Pop Culture Moment of the Year?

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Makes Plans to Hit Broadway in 2018

Even J.K. Rowling Can’t Get the Harry Potter Timeline Right

The 9 ¾ Most WTF Moments in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Here’s What Has Happened in the Wizarding World Before Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Begins

Grown-Up Harry Potter Is Tired of All This Wizarding Crap in the First Cursed Child Play Pics

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Will Be a Sequel About Harry and His Middle Child

The Harry Potter Play Opening Next Year Won’t Be a Prequel

David Bowie’s Turning The Man Who Fell to Earth Into a Play

Disney wants to adapt Princess Bride for the stage

Terminator 2 reenacted entirely with lines from Shakespeare

Watch Val Kilmer morph into Mark Twain — YIKES

After you’ve defeated the alien invaders, the hard part begins

How To Train Your Dragon‘s stage show will feast on Spider-Man’s Broadway entrails

Coolest Shakespeare Riffs in Science Fiction and Fantasy

U2’s $50 million Spider-Man musical hits the stage in November

U.S.S. Pinafore is the very model of a modern Star Trek-Gilbert & Sullivan mash-up!

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