Stranger Things: The First Shadow will end its Broadway run in January 2027 and its London 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. 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.
It will also have another competitor in the horror realm, with Paranormal Activity coming to Broadway this summer.
The West End show, which opened in December 2023, will complete its run at the Phoenix Theatre on Dec. 27. The Broadway show will end its run at the Marquis Theatre on Jan. 3.
