The documentary Behind the Curtain: Stranger Issues: The First Shadow will take a look at the making of the stage play
Netflix has teamed up with Sonia Friedman Productions to provide the stage play Stranger Issues: The First Shadow, which is “rooted in the mythology” of the hit streaming sequence Stranger Issues and opened on the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West Finish in December of 2023. The present has been breaking field workplace data and received a number of awards, and this yr, it is going to be making the leap to Broadway. Stranger Issues: The First Shadow is about to start previews on the Marquis Theatre as we speak, Friday, March 28, and formally open on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Now, Selection has discovered {that a} behind-the-scenes documentary known as Behind the Curtain: Stranger Issues: The First Shadow is about to begin streaming on Netflix on April 15th.
Directed by Jon Halperin, this documentary is claimed to be “an electrifying look backstage at the making of the play before it launched in London’s West End in December 2023.” It follows the forged and crew of the primary Stranger Issues: The First Shadow manufacturing as they race towards time to organize for its debut on the Phoenix Theater amid mounting anticipation. Alongside promote out performances and important acclaim, the West Finish present would land two Olivier Awards in 2024, for finest leisure of comedy play and for set design.
Some time again, Deadline heard that Stranger Issues: The First Shadow “will be the first instalment in a trilogy exploring the dark underbelly of Hawkins, Indiana. Breaking Baz can reveal parts two and three are set to follow the inaugural play in two or three year intervals, according to insiders associated with the production.”
Written by Stranger Issues author and co-executive producer Kate Trefry from an unique story she crafted with the Duffer Brothers and Jack Thorne, Stranger Issues: The First Shadow has the next synopsis: Hawkins, 1959: an everyday city with common worries. Younger Jim Hopper’s automotive received’t begin, Bob Newby’s sister received’t take his radio present critically and Joyce Maldonado simply desires to graduate and get the hell out of city. When new scholar Henry Creel arrives, his household finds {that a} recent begin isn’t really easy… and the shadows of the previous have a really lengthy attain. Dropped at life by a multi-award-winning inventive crew, who take theatrical storytelling and stagecraft to a complete new dimension, this gripping new journey will take you proper again to the start of the Stranger Issues story – and should maintain the important thing to the top.
Stranger Issues creators the Duffer Brothers are inventive producers on the play, and the present’s producers at 21 Laps get an affiliate producer credit score. The play is being directed by Stephen Daldry, with Justin Martin co-directing. Behind the Curtain: Stranger Issues: The First Shadow has been produced by Angus Wall, Kent Kubena, and Terry Leonard, with Matt Bell serving as government producer.
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