The critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning, world premiere production heads into its second anniversary of the West End production, and ahead of the highly anticipated fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series.
Year 3 Cast of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
Current cast members Ammar Duffus (Charles Sinclair), Jack Gardner (Walter Henderson), Andy Langtree (Victor Creel), Lauren O'Neil (Virginia Creel) and Rufus Wright (Principal Newby) and the previously announced Jack Christou (Henry Creel), Stewart Clarke (Dr Brenner), Avril Maponga (Patty Newby), Max Potter (Bob Newby), Adam Wadsworth (James Hopper Jr.) and Edie Wright (Joyce Maldonado) are joined by a new company including Maximillian Graham (Alan Munson), Anastasia Koloko (Sue Anderson), Joshua McElroy (Lonnie Byers), Grace Alice Murray (Claudia Yount), Tom O'Brien (Ted Wheeler), Freya Taylor-Lester (Karen Childress), Andrew Whipp (Chief Hopper).
To alternate the role of Alice Creel, current cast members Maya Guinoubi and Tabitha Morley are joined by Phoenix Hamer and Emilia Rose. Completing the company are Lola Adaja, Bronte Alice-Tadman, Aoife Browne, Kaylah Copeland, Alex Dargie, Adéoré Edwards, Vanessa Fisher, Kieran Garland, Ross Green, Brandon Kimrayo, Ben Skym, Leah St Luce, Stanley Treshansky, and Selena Thompson.
The original story by the Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne, and Kate Trefry, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, is a thrilling new adventure that takes audiences back to the origins of the Stranger Things saga. Inspired by the hit Netflix series, this play thrusts audiences to 1959, where the Upside Down and the eerie forces reveal themselves to the town for the first time. Ahead of the highly anticipated fifth season of the hit Netflix series later this year, this play has won numerous accolades in London, and a production on Broadway opened earlier this year.
Stranger Things: The First Shadow is now booking through to 5 April 2026 at the Phoenix Theatre.
