Stranger Things has a canon stage play, First Shadow, that reveals the truth about how Vecna got his otherworldly powers.

The First Shadow is still running on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. Get updated run dates (through June 28, 2026), showtimes (7 p.m. plus 1 p.m. matinees), holiday-week changes, and ticket prices from $59.

The only connection between the trio we see in the series is when Max is in Henry's memories and sees a young Joyce at Hawkins High, passing out flyers for a school play. Besides

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The Top 10 earners for the week were Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, $3,038,963; Wicked, $3,001,721; Hamilton, $2,983,979; The Lion King, $2,754,103; Mamma Mia!; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Chess, $1,727,978 ; MJ, $1,659,386; Aladdin, $1,602,12; and Art, $1,590,503, which recouped it investment this month.

“Stranger Things 5” draws near. The conclusion to Netflix’s flagship series is being released in three sections across the holidays – on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve – and the streaming service has just released a teaser trailer ...

Ready to be turned upside down? Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the acclaimed West End stage show based on the popular Netflix series, will soon arrive on Broadway. This new play by Kate Trefry, a writer and co-executive producer for the TV series of ...

Idk about you, but here at Cosmo HQ, we seriously binged the first drop of Stranger Things season 5. Landing on our screens on November 26, the first four episodes of the final season had us truly gagged—and as we wait for three more episodes to drop on ...

Oh, Joyce. Our favorite over-protective mother has WAY over-corrected. She’s gone from insisting that Will can’t even so much as blink in Vecna’s direction to deciding it’s time to put him RIGHT in the thick of it in our first clip from Stranger ...

The first episode delivers one of the series’ strongest openers. Low narrative stakes due to the refusal to kill the main characters. Essential move toward answering definitive narrative questions. Pacing suffers from the overly expansive cast and ...

Stranger Things is back and – other than one incredibly jarring, cringey joke – it’s back with a vengeance. The first four episodes of Season 5 are live on Netflix, and I’ve been mostly loving the final season. I’m itching for Christmas to arrive ...