Why Millie Bobby Brown Skipped ‘Stranger Issues: The First Shadow’ Opening

• Broadway play Stranger Issues: The First Shadow opens April 22 on the Marquis Theatre 
• Whereas expertise from the unique Netflix collection attended the opening, star Millie Bobby Brown didn’t
• The actress is busy filming upcoming sequel Enola Holmes 3

Stranger Issues: The First Shadow is popping Broadway the other way up with its opening at New York’s Marquis Theatre on Tuesday, April 22. However one of many authentic stars of the Netflix horror collection it’s primarily based on was not among the many attendees. 

Millie Bobby Brown, who has performed Eleven in Matt and Ross Duffer’s hit since its 2016 debut, just isn’t becoming a member of the First Shadow premiere occasion. The actress, 21, is as an alternative busy filming one in every of her subsequent tasks: Enola Holmes 3. 

The star-studded checklist of friends supporting the crew behind The First Shadow, which transferred from an acclaimed run in London’s West Finish, consists of most of the Netflix collection’ actors: Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Matthew Modine, Brett Gelman and Priah Ferguson.

Additionally not attending the occasion was authentic collection actress Sadie Sink, who did go to a preview of The First Shadow on Monday. That was her time without work from starring in director Danya Taymor and playwright Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is the Villain simply throughout the road at Broadway’s Sales space Theatre.

Brown performed the title character in 2020’s Enola Holmes, the story of Sherlock Holmes’ intrepid youthful sister, and its 2022 sequel. Along with that and the Stranger Issues collection, she has been busy in quite a lot of Netflix tasks, together with final yr’s Damsel and The Electrical State this March. 

Enola Holmes 3 is bringing again Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Helena Bonham Carter as matriarch Eudoria Holmes, Himesh Patel as Dr. Watson, Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Mira Troy, Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury and extra. Director Philip Barantini helms the sequel, which, like its predecessors, is tailored by Jack Thorne from Nancy Springer’s ebook collection of the identical title. Barantini and Thorne have collaborated earlier than, on the Netflix hit Adolescence. 

“Journey chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, the place private {and professional} goals collide on a case extra tangled and treacherous than any she has confronted earlier than,” reads an official synopsis. 

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Thorne and the Duffer brothers are among the many creatives behind The First Shadow, directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin and written by Kate Trefry, who has labored on the Stranger Issues TV collection since its second season. The play is a prequel set in 1959 Hawkins, Ind., an origin story for top school-aged Jim Hopper, Joyce Maldonado and Bob Newby — the characters performed on display screen by David Harbour, Winona Ryder and Sean Astin — and Henry Creel (a.ok.a. Stranger Issues‘ Vecna).

“I used to be actually given free rein to go loopy,” Trefry instructed PEOPLE of the play’s conception. “It [had] to slot in with all the things we have achieved earlier than on the present, and it additionally needed to tie in with season 5, which I used to be engaged on on the similar time that I used to be writing the play.” 

Stranger Issues season 5 is predicted to premiere someday in 2025. Tickets for Stranger Issues: The First Shadow are on sale now.