Using JK Rowling's new original story, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany have written a thrilling play that will rightfully become the eighth in the Harry Potter series and the first official story about the famous wizard, created specifically for the theatrical stage, which premiered in in London's West End on July 30, 2016. It's never been easy being Harry Potter, and it's not much easier now that he's a senior official at the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and the father of three school-aged children. While Harry himself finds himself battling with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must overcome the full weight of a family inheritance that he never aspired to. Ominous shadows of the past and complex problems of the present force father and son to face an inconvenient truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.