A new cast will join the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre from 15 October 2025.
Among the new company are Joshua Sullivan as Albus Potter, Kai Spackman as Scorpius Malfoy, Oliver Boot as Draco Malfoy, and Tamia-Renée Alexandra as Rose Granger-Weasley.
They join returning leads David Ricardo-Pearce and Claire Lams as Harry and Ginny Potter, alongside Thomas Aldridge and Naana Agyei-Ampadu as Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – London: The Potters – Claire Lams, Joshua Sullivan, David Ricardo-Pearce; The Weasleys – Thomas Aldridge, Tamia-Renée Alexandra, Naana Agyei-Ampadu; The Malfoys – Kai Spackman, Oliver Boot (Photos via PR)
The wider ensemble features a cast of over 30, including David Annen, Hollie Beastall, Jacqueline Beaumont, Angeline Bell, Ricardo Castro, Robert Curtis, Laveda Dione, Gabriel Fleary, Aidan Garrett Wilkins, Cate Hamer, Tim Hibberd, Max Hunter, Dewayne Jameson Adams, Emma Louise Jones, Laura June Ness, Geffen Katz-Kaye, Louise Ludgate, Sophie Matthew, Nathan Muwowo, David Nairne, Mariam Pope, Helen Power, Jocelyn Prah, Claire Redcliffe, Ian Redford, Martin de los Santos, Adam Slynn, Joshua Talbot, Callum Tempest, Alex Tomkins and Jake Tuesley. Jasper Franklin, Sebastian Halford, Rachel Kirk, Effie Linnen, Theo Martin, Zachary Seaton and Harper Tricker alternate two children’s roles.
The announcement comes as the record-breaking, two-part play extends its booking period through to 26 July 2026. An additional 130,000 tickets have been released, including 26,000 priced at £15 per part. The London production remains the only one globally to perform the play in its original two-part format (The Broadway show recently reduced the run time of its one-part-only version of the show to under 3 hours).
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Set 19 years after the original book series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows Harry, Ron and Hermione as they face a new chapter of their lives – and a new generation of young wizards at Hogwarts. The play has become a global theatrical phenomenon, with over 11 million people having seen it worldwide and more than 2 million in the West End alone. Now in its ninth year, the production has earned 60 major honours, including nine Olivier Awards and six Tony Awards.
The show is written by Jack Thorne and directed by John Tiffany, with movement by Steven Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music & arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions & magic by Jamie Harrison, music supervision & arrangements by Martin Lowe, and casting by Julia Horan CDG and Lotte Hines CDG.
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Meanwhile on Broadway, the production is set to make history once again. On Monday 1 September, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will become the third longest-running play in Broadway history, surpassing Abie’s Irish Rose with 2,328 performances. Only Life with Father and Tobacco Road have had longer runs. The show continues its record-breaking engagement at the Lyric Theatre in New York, where it is also recognised by Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing non-musical play in Broadway history, with over $430 million in total sales and more than 3.5 million tickets sold.
Adding to the excitement, original Harry Potter film star Tom Felton is set to make his Broadway debut in the production this autumn. Felton will return to the role of Draco Malfoy – which he portrayed on screen – for a limited run from 11 November 2025 to 10 May 2026.
A major new HBO TV series based on the original Harry Potter books is currently filming in the UK, starring newcomers Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley; and stage and screen stars John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, Katherine Parkinson as Molly Weasley, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now booking to 26 July 2026 at the Palace Theatre London.
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