The Upside Down is coming to New York City. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will arrive on Broadway in 2025, Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions said Tuesday. “The First Shadow,” directed by Stephen Daldry and co-directed by Justin Martin, made its world premiere last fall on London’s West End. “It’s scary like ‘Stranger Things’ is scary,” said playwright Kate Trefry, …
The theater world is heading into the Upside Down and even further back in time. Netflix on Wednesday announced the release date for “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a new play focusing on some of the original series’ adult characters growing up in 1959 — “before the world turned upside down.” And co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer “can’t wait to …