Netflix is getting ready to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the “Stranger Things” play, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” which premiered on December 14, 2023, at the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End. The documentary “Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will debut on Netflix on April 15, 2025.
The documentary, directed by Jon Halperin, gives fans a firsthand look at how the production team brought the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things” to life in this ambitious, boundary-pushing new stage show. “Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow” follows the cast and crew of the Olivier Award–winning West End stage show all the way up to the show’s opening night.
The documentary is arriving on Netflix just in time for the Broadway arrival of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” in the US. Previews for the show begin today, Friday, March 28, with the show officially opening on April 22 at the Marquis Theatre in New York. Tickets for the Broadway performances are on sale now at StrangerThingsBroadway.com.
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow” is based on an original story by “Stranger Things” creators the Duffer brothers, Jack Thorne (“Enola Holmes 2”), and Kate Trefry. The play is set in Hawkins in 1959 following the arrival of the Creel Family and serves as an origin story for the Netflix series. In it, a boy vanishes into thin air. His close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events. Beneath the surface of their sleepy town lurks an extraordinary supernatural mystery, along with top-secret government experiments and a dangerous gateway that connects our world to a powerful yet sinister realm. What they discover will change Hawkins and possibly the world — forever.
The play is written by Trefry, directed by Tony winner Stephen Daldry, and co-directed by Justin Martin. The play is produced by Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions. The Duffer brothers act as creative producers, with Shawn Levy for 21 Laps Entertainment and Dan Cohen as associate producers.
