Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton attend ‘Stranger Issues’ Broadway Opening

Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton are having fun with a date night time!

The Stranger Issues stars have been in attendance on the Broadway opening night time of the play primarily based on the Netflix hit on Tuesday, April 22 at New York Metropolis’s Marquis Theater.

The 2 walked the purple carpet arm in arm, whereas Dyer, 30, wore a sage inexperienced long-sleeved sweater with a velvet black midi-skirt and black velvet platform sandals. Heaton, 31, sported an outsized grey pinstriped go well with with an identical go well with vest, a black button-down shirt, and a pair of black leather-based loafers.

Additionally in attendance have been their costars Noah Schnapp, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Matt Modine, Brett Gelman and Priah Ferguson, and collection creators, administrators and govt producers Matt and Ross Duffer. 

Stranger Issues: The First Shadow‘s starry opening follows the beginning of previews on March 28 and its London premiere in December 2023, the place it’s nonetheless taking part in.

Dyer and Heaton first met once they have been forged on the Netflix collection as highschool lovebirds Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers. Inside months of the present’s launch in 2016, followers started to take a position that the 2 actors have been a pair in actual life.

The courting rumors intensified in January 2017 once they have been noticed collectively on the Los Angeles Worldwide Airport after attending the Golden Globes. That December, the pair made their purple carpet debut on the 2017 Trend Awards in London.

They’ve since attended a number of occasions side-by-side, together with the 2019 Giffoni Movie Pageant, the 2022 Display screen Actors Guild Awards and the 2022 premiere of Stranger Issues season 4. 

Heaton and Dyer have been photographed throughout a uncommon sighting in New York Metropolis in December 2023, marking the primary time they’d been seen in public collectively in eight months. They have been most lately noticed on the Saint Laurent Fall RTW 2025 style present final month in Paris.

Their outing on the Stranger Issues occasion comes forward of the anticipated launch of the present’s fifth and ultimate season.

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Stranger Issues: The First Shadow serves as a prequel to the tv collection and takes place within the fictional city of Hawkins, Ind. in 1959 – a long time earlier than Mike Wheeler, Eleven and the younger stars on the heart of the 80s-set Netflix present have been born.

The play focuses on excessive school-aged Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newby — the characters performed on display by David Harbour, Winona Ryder and Sean Astin — because it dives into the origin story of Henry Creel. 

The stage present was conceived by the Duffer Brothers, in addition to Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby scribe Jack Thorne and Stranger Issues author and co-executive producer Kate Trefry. Three-time Tony winner Stephen Daldry directed the work with Justin Martin

Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions produce the play, alongside affiliate producer 21 Laps Leisure. The artistic workforce contains Miriam Buether (set design), Brigitte Reiffenstuel (costume design), Jon Clark (lighting design), Paul Arditti (sound design) and D.J. Walde (unique music composition, orchestration, preparations and supervision).  

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The forged is led by Burke Swanson, Alison Jaye and Juan Carlos, who step into the roles of Jim, Joyce and Bob, respectively. Different principal roles embody Rosie Benton (as Virginia Creel), Alex Breaux (as Dr. Brenner), Andrew Hovelson (as Principal Newby), Emmy nominee T.R. Knight (as Victor Creel) and Gabrielle Nevaeh (as Patty Newby). Louis McCartney reprises his position as Henry Creel from the West Finish manufacturing.

Finishing the forged are Janie Brookshire, Kelsey Anne Brown, Malcolm Callender, Ta’Rea Campbell, Antoinette Comer, Robert T. Cunningham, Ayana Cymone, Tom D’Agustino, Victor de Paula Rocha, Ian Michael Dolley, Dora Dolphin, Nya Garner, Logan Gould, Shea Grant, Rebecca Hurd, Ted Koch, Poppy Lovell,  Jamie Martin Mann, Patrick Scott McDermott, Sean Mikesh, Stephen Wattrus, Maya West, Eric Wiegand, Graham Winton and Azalea Wolfe.

Tickets to Stranger Issues: The First Shadow are actually on sale.