The First Shadow is still running on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. Get updated run dates (through June 28, 2026), showtimes (7 p.m. plus 1 p.m. matinees), holiday-week changes, and ticket prices from $59.

The "Stranger Things" Season 5 finale, a two-hour long movie called "Rightside Up," premieres on Netflix on New Year's Eve.

Stranger Things fans are hoping Netflix will make the show’s stage play, The First Shadow, available to stream. The show’s finale season featured several references to the play, which is currently playing in London and New York City. [Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Stranger Things‘ series finale.]

The First Shadow' grossed more than $2.5 million in one week over Christmas, a record for the Marquis Theater.

Even after the series finale of "Stranger Things" this week, the Netflix show's world will expand with at least two upcoming spinoffs.

In the play, Patty was the adopted daughter of Principal Newby and the sister of Bob Newby, who later appeared in Season 2 of Stranger Things. As a high school student, she formed a close relationship with Henry Creel and became one of the few people who treated him with compassion as opposed to suspicion.

Christmas week was reliably bountiful for Broadway, with some record-breaking grosses for the holiday fulfilling producers’ holiday wishes. Among the big performers were Stranger Things: The First Shadow,