Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part West End stage play
written by Jack Thorne
based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany.[1]Previews of the play began at the Palace Theatre, London on 7 June 2016[2] and was scheduled to officially premiere on 30 July 2016. The rehearsal script, not a novelization of the play,[3] is scheduled to be released on 31 July 2016 and become the eighth story set in the Harry Potter universe.[4] The story is set nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter.