Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack

Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany.[1] Previews of the
play began at the Palace Theatre, London on 7 June 2016[2] and was scheduled to officially premiere
on 30 July 2016. The rehearsal script, not a novelization of the play,[3] is scheduled to be released on
31 July 2016 and become the eighth story set in the Harry Potter universe. [4] The story is set
nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter,
now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter.