Harry Potter alum Tom Felton will continue playing Draco Malfoy for several more months in the Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
The actor, who played the antagonistic blond wizard in all eight Harry Potter movies, stepped back into Malfoy's shoes when he joined the Broadway cast of Cursed Child as an adult version of his famous character. His 19-week limited run, which began in November 2025, was originally supposed to end in March but was extended to May.
Felton's time on Broadway isn't coming to an end anytime soon, now that producers have announced his run is being extended a second time. Due to a surge in ticket sales, fans can now see the actor in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre through November 1, 2026, according to Deadline.
Even though he extended his Broadway run, there will be four periods of time from now until October in which he will be absent from Cursed Child: May 11–31, August 17–23, September 14–20, and October 12–18.
After joining the cast, ticket sales for Cursed Child surged, with the show grossing $3.7 million during the week of December 23–28, 2025, a new Lyric Theatre record. Felton's co-stars in the current Broadway cast are John Skelley, Trish Lindstrom, Emmet Smith, Rachel Christopher, Daniel Fredrick, Janae Hammond, Aidan Close, and Kristen Mariten.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which was originally a two-part production but has since been condensed into a one-part play, centers on an adult Harry Potter and his son Albus Potter as they navigate strained family dynamics when the latter attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the first time.
At Hogwarts, Albus meets Scorpius Malfoy (Draco's son), and the two become close friends. The play has been described as a visually stunning production and won several Tony Awards in 2018, including Best Play, Best Direction of a Play, Best Scenic Design in a Play, Best Costume Design in a Play, Best Lighting Design in a Play, and Best Sound Design in a Play.
After debuting in the West End in 2016, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child made its Broadway debut two years later and has since expanded to other cities in the United States and around the world, including Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo, and The Hague.
A North American tour kicked off in Chicago in the fall of 2024 and has traveled to nine other cities; the touring production is currently in St. Louis and will soon head to Minneapolis, Denver, and Costa Mesa.
After the final Harry Potter film was released in 2011, Felton starred in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Apparition, Risen, Ophelia, A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, Altered, Fackham Hall, and The Flash, among many other films and TV shows.
Cursed Child marks his Broadway debut, as he follows in the footsteps of Harry Potter movie co-star and Tony winner Daniel Radcliffe, who is also currently on Broadway in Every Brilliant Thing.
Harry Potter is a multimedia franchise about an orphaned boy who enrolls at Hogwarts School of Wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family, and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world. Adapted from the novels, Harry Potter is an eight-episode film saga that follows the journey of Harry Potter and his friends, Hermoine Granger and Ron Weasley, as they navigate the tricky world of growing up, school life, and magic. Starting from year one and moving to their seventh year, the films chronicle the students' time at Hogwarts while unfurling a sinister plot that centers around the unsuspecting Harry. With the return of the dark wizard, Voldemort, the students and professors at Hogwarts will fight to carry on as the world around them may change forever. Harry Potter has expanded beyond the world of its films and novels with several video games, a spin-off film series titled Fantastic Beasts, and even attractions at Universal Studios.
