Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries.

That is until young Henry Creel arrives and everything starts going, well, strange. His family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy… and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow tells the story before Hawkins was turned upside down. It takes us back to the beginning as we how things became so strange.

Directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) and written The Duffer Brothers (original Stranger Things tv writers), Kate Trefry, and Jack Thorne (The Motive and the Cue), Stranger Things: The First Shadow is a visual spectacle that won Best New Entertainment or Comedy Play at the 2024 Olivier Awards.

Get ready for the gripping adventure that will take you right back to the beginning of the Stranger Things story – and may hold the key to the end.