The VerdictWhat Do Critics Think of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco? The West Coast premiere of the Tony- and Olivier-winning play opened at the Curran Theatre December 1.
San Francisco Cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildMatthew Murphy
With veritaserum in their quills, critics have had their say about the West Coast debut of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.
The open-ended engagement, which opened December 1, began after a five-month transformation of the Curran Theatre, similar to that ofthe Lyric Theatre production on Broadway.
Leading the cast are John Skelley as Harry Potter, Angela Reed as Ginny Potter, Benjamin Papac as Albus Potter, David Abeles as Ron Weasley, Yanna McIntosh as Hermione Granger, Folami Williams as Rose Granger-Weasley, Lucas Hall as Draco Malfoy, and Jon Steiger as Scorpius Malfoy. Skelley, Abeles, and Reed have all appeared in that production, which earned six Tony awards in 2018.
The two-part play is the eighth official installment in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series—the only one to be performed on stage. The work is penned by Jack Thorne, based on a story by Rowling, Thorne, and director John Tiffany.
Playbill will continue to update this list as more reviews come in.
Rounding out the cast are Theo Allyn, William Bednar-Carter, Natalia Bingham, Ebony Blake, Melanie Brezill, Shannon Cochran, Elijah Cooper, Irving Dyson Jr., Kita Grayson, Logan James Hall, Abbi Hawk, Corey Hedy, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Kyle Hines, Nathan Hosner, Nicholas Hyland, Charles Janasz, Katherine Leask, Joel Leffert, Andrew Long, Lily Mojekwu, Emily Juliette Murphy, Steve O'Connell, Erik Evan Olson, Christian Pedersen, Julian Rozzell, Jr., Natalie Adele Schroeder, Tuck Sweeney, Geoffrey Wade, Lauren Zakrin, and Brittany Zeinstra.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered in the West End in 2016 before going on to open at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre in 2018. An Australian production began in February this year, and productions are slated to bow in Hamburg (marking the first non-English language mounting) and Toronto in 2020.
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Inside Opening Night of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco
Inside Opening Night of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco
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Amy Tan
Elizabeth Gaine and Colin Callender
Laurie Scolari and Sirron Norris
Katherine Steele
Julius Thomas
Yasmine Lee
Nick Adams
Veronica Getty, Vanessa Getty, Carole Shorenstein Hays, and Jeff Hays
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Sonia Friedman
Shorenstein Hays
Jessica Miller, Lars Ulrich, and Bryce Ulrich-Nielsen
Colin Callender and Sonia Friedman
Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley
Tuck Sweeney, Irving Dyson Jr., Lucas James Hall, Lauren Zakrin, and Corey Hedy
William Bednar-Carter, Elijah Cooper, Tyler Patrick Hennessy, Natalie Adele Schreoder, Natalia Bingham, and Folami Williams
Emily Juliette Murphy
Brittany Zeinstra, Katherine Leask, Andrew Long, Julian Rozzell, Jr., Charles Janasz, and Shannon Cochran
Lucas Hall, Jon Steiger, Angela Reed, John Skelley, Benjamin Papac, Yanna McIntosh, and David Abeles
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Tyler Patrick Hennessy
Lucas Hall, Jon Steiger, Angela Reed, John Skelley, Benjamin Papac Yanna McIntosh, and David Abeles
Erik Evan Olson
Benjamin Papac
Jon Steiger
Erik Evan Olson and Irving Dyson Jr.
Benjamin Papac and Jon Steiger
Irving Dyson Jr.
David Abeles
Lucas Hall, David Abeles, and John Skelley
John Skelley
Lucas Hall
Julian Rozzell Jr.
Andrew Long
William Bednar-Carter
Tuck Sweeney
Geoffrey Wade
Benjamin Papac, Tyler Patrick Hennesey, and John Skelley
Theo Allyn
Katherine Leask
Katherine Leask and Jon Steiger
Logan James Hall
Christian Pedersen
Natalie Adele Schreoder
David Abeles, Colin Callender, Sonia Friedman, John Skelley, and Lucas Hall
Angela Reed
Lily Mojekwu
Angela Reed and Sonia Friedman
Angela Reed and John Skelley
Steve O'Connell
Kyle Hines
Shannon Cochran
Emily Juliette Murphy
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Yanna McIntosh
David Abeles, Yanna McIntosh, and John Skelley
Jon Steiger, Angela Reed, David Abeles, Producer Sonia Friedman, Yanna McIntosh, John Skelley, Benjamin Papac, and Lucas Hall
