• By MuggleNet Editorial Staff
• 11 Aug, 2026
• Cursed Child

Tom Felton apparently isn’t ready to put away the platinum-blond wig just yet.

The Harry Potter actor will remain in the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child through January 3, 2027, producers announced August 11. The newly announced dates are being billed as Felton’s final extension in the role of Draco Malfoy, with tickets now on sale starting at $80.

It is another long expansion for an engagement that was originally supposed to be much shorter. When Felton’s casting was announced in June 2025, he was scheduled to play Draco for 19 weeks, from November 11, 2025, through March 22, 2026. That run was subsequently extended first through May 10 and then through November 1. The new January closing date means an engagement initially planned for less than five months will ultimately span over a year, nearly 60 weeks, on the Broadway calendar.

And if you’ve been following the numbers, it isn’t particularly difficult to see why the producers have kept asking Draco to stick around.

Felton’s arrival at the Lyric Theatre produced an immediate surge at the box office. During his first week in the show, Cursed Child grossed roughly $2.59 million across seven performances, more than $1 million above the previous week’s total. The following week, the production climbed again to approximately $2.97 million, then an all-time high for the Broadway production. Playbill later reported that the show had set the Lyric Theatre’s box-office record with a $3.7 million nine-performance week.

Cursed Child was already one of Broadway’s biggest theatrical success stories long before a familiar Malfoy entered the building, but audiences responded strongly enough to turn what was conceived as a limited engagement into a long-term residency.

Felton is the first performer from the Harry Potter film series to reprise their original character in a production of Cursed Child. (Though Oliver Masucci, who played Anton Vogel in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, played the role of Severus Snape for a limited run in the Hamburg production in 2024.) Now audiences can see him playing Draco as a middle-aged father, confronting the complicated Malfoy legacy while raising the surprisingly warm-hearted Scorpius.

Cursed Child may be Felton’s Broadway debut, but it wasn’t his first experience onstage. He made his West End debut in 2:22 A Ghost Story in 2022 and later appeared in A Child of Science at the Bristol Old Vic, giving him some theatrical experience before taking on the challenge of returning to a character he first played as a child.

Aidan Close currently stars opposite Felton as Scorpius Malfoy. The Broadway company also features John Skelley as Harry Potter, Trish Lindstrom as Ginny Potter, Emmet Smith as Albus Potter, Rachel Christopher as Hermione Granger, Daniel Fredrick as Ron Weasley, Janae Hammond as Rose Granger-Weasley, and Kristen Martin as Delphi Diggory.

Want to go see Draco on stage? There are several dates to keep in mind before booking specifically to see Felton. He is not scheduled to perform August 17–23, September 14–20, October 12–18, or November 2.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre in 2018 and has since become the third-longest-running play in Broadway history. The production says more than 11 million tickets have been sold across Cursed Child productions worldwide, while the New York production has surpassed 3.5 million admissions.

So yes, this really does appear to be the last extension. After several previous endings came and went, though, we’ll forgive anyone for keeping a tiny bit of Felix Felicis nearby just in case.

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Photos by Matthew Murphy, courtesy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child