The producers of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have released 425,000 tickets for the reimagined one-part production, which begins performances at the Palace Theatre on 9 October 2026.
The production is now booking to 27 June 2027, with the new version running 2 hours and 55 minutes including one interval.
The announcement comes as the original multi-award-winning two-part production approaches its final performance on 20 September 2026.
Celebrating ten years in the West End this July, the original staging has welcomed over 2.2 million audience members since opening in 2016, including more than 300,000 first-time theatregoers.
A global success since its London premiere, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has seen nine productions worldwide, with six currently running in London, New York, Hamburg, Tokyo, on a North American tour and in the Netherlands.
The play has received a record-breaking nine Laurence Olivier Awards, the most ever for a play, and has accumulated 60 major honours internationally.
The West End cast includes David Ricardo-Pearce as Harry Potter, Claire Lams as Ginny Potter and Joshua Sullivan as Albus Potter. Thomas Aldridge and Naana Agyei-Ampadu play Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with Tamia-Renée Alexandra as Rose Granger-Weasley. Oliver Boot appears as Draco Malfoy and Kai Spackman as Scorpius.
They are joined by David Annen, Hollie Beastall, Jacqueline Beaumont, Angeline Bell, Ricardo Castro, Robert Curtis, Laveda Dione, Gabriel Fleary, 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, Jake Tuesley and Aidan Garrett Wilkins. Alternating children’s roles are Scarlett Davies, Jasper Franklin, Sebastian Halford, Rachel Kirk, Effie Linnen, Tabitha Kodesh, Theo Martin, Olivia Miller, Jack Pennycook, Zachary Seaton, Harper Tricker and Huxley Syers.
Set nineteen years after the original story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows Harry, Ron and Hermione as they face a new adventure alongside a younger generation of Hogwarts students.
The play is based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. It is written by Jack Thorne and directed by John Tiffany, with movement by Steven Hoggett, set by Christine Jones, costumes by Katrina Lindsay, music and arrangements by Imogen Heap, lighting by Neil Austin, sound by Gareth Fry, illusions and magic by Jamie Harrison, music supervision and arrangements by Martin Lowe, and casting by Julia Horan CDG and Lotte Hines CDG.
Tickets for the two-part production, running until 20 September 2026, remain priced from £15 per part, with the regular schedule running Wednesday to Sunday. The weekly ‘Friday Forty’ lottery via TodayTix continues to offer 40 tickets priced at £40 for the following week’s performances.
Tickets for the new one-part production are priced from £25, with evening performances Tuesday to Saturday and matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Access performances for 2027 include British Sign Language, Captioned and Audio Described dates across January and May.
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
