Which 2016 play, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, continues Harry Potter’s life as an adult?

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the 2016 play that continues Harry Potter’s life as an adult.

The play is based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, with Thorne writing the script. It is set nineteen years after the end of the seventh Harry Potter novel. Harry is now an adult working at the Ministry of Magic, while his son Albus Severus begins studying at Hogwarts.

The story centers on the relationship between Harry and Albus, as well as Albus’s friendship with Scorpius Malfoy. Time travel and the consequences of changing the past are important elements. The stage production uses live performance, illusion, movement, and elaborate theatrical effects rather than film-style visual effects.

Previews began in London in 2016, and the play officially opened at the Palace Theatre. The published script was released as a book in 2016. It is a dramatic script rather than the eighth conventional prose novel in the Harry Potter series.