Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will have an exclusive season at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre in early 2019.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the award-winning eighth story in JK Rowling’s wildly popular Harry Potter series, will hit Australian shores in early 2019. Australian producer Michael Cassel – who has brought out productions such as Kinky Boots and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – will bring the two-part play, based on an original new story by JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany (which was originally published as a playscript rather than a novel), to Melbourne for an exclusive season at the Princess Theatre. The production will feature an Australian cast, for which casting will begin in November.

^{Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Original London Company. Photo © Manuel Harlan}

“When we embarked on this journey, it was an objective to ensure we could get the production to Australia as soon as logistically possible,” the play’s producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Challender said. “You can’t ever assume a new play is going to have a further life, but we knew that if Harry Potter and...