What is the name of J.K. Rowling’s 2016 stage play set in the Harry Potter world?

J.K. Rowling’s 2016 stage play set in the Harry Potter world is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The play is set nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Its story follows Harry as an adult employee of the Ministry of Magic and his son Albus Severus Potter, who begins attending Hogwarts. Draco Malfoy’s son, Scorpius, is also central to the plot.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was written by Jack Thorne and directed by John Tiffany, based on an original story by Rowling, Thorne, and Tiffany. Rowling was not the sole playwright. The stage production opened in London’s West End in 2016 and later received productions in other cities.

The published script is often grouped with the novels by fans, but it is a play script rather than an eighth Harry Potter novel. That distinction explains why the original novel series remains a seven-book sequence.