Here’s some truly scary Broadway news: “Paranormal Activity” is coming to the stage.
The play, with the let’s-first-answer-the-basic-questions-you-might-have title of “Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Broadway,” is planning to start previews Aug. 14 and to open on Sept. 15 at the August Wilson Theater for a run that the producers said will be limited to 20 weeks.
The play is written by Levi Holloway, who also wrote a previous horror play, “Grey House,” that had a brief run on Broadway in 2023. The play is being directed by Felix Barrett, the founder and artistic director of Punchdrunk, a British theater company best known for creating the long-running immersive show “Sleep No More.”
The production team will have had plenty of practice by the time the show gets to New York. The first version of the play was staged in Leeds, England, in 2024; a revised version had a run in London that began late last year; this summer it is planning to return to London and to start a tour of Britain and Ireland. The American production has already played at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco; one last pre-Broadway stop is planned at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston in July.
The lead producer is Melting Pot, a British company led by Simon Friend and Hanna Osmolska. The play, about a couple who move to London from Chicago only to learn “places aren’t haunted, people are,” according to publicity materials, is described as “an original story inspired by the film franchise,” and is being produced in association with Paramount Pictures and Solana Films, which also backed the seven (so far) films. The Broadway cast has not yet been announced.
Michael Paulson is the theater reporter for The Times.
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