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Paranormal Activity, nan shape adjustment based connected nan deed scary movie franchise, is coming to Broadway pursuing sold-out runs successful London’s West End, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC and San Francisco.
Written by Levi Holloway (Grey House) and directed by Felix Barrett (Sleep No More), nan strictly constricted 20-week engagement of Paranormal Activity – A New Story Live connected Broadway will statesman performances Friday, August 14, astatine Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre up of an charismatic opening connected Tuesday, September 15.
Casting for nan Broadway accumulation will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
The shape adjustment of Paranormal Activity is an original communicative that follows a caller mates not featured successful immoderate of nan films. The synopsis reads: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to flight their past, but they soon observe that places aren’t haunted, group are… With an original communicative inspired by nan movie franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines nan modern shade communicative pinch an intimacy that only unrecorded theatre tin provide.”
The Broadway accumulation will travel a strictly constricted pre-Broadway engagement successful Boston astatine nan Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 done July 30. Prior to Boston, Paranormal Activity played sold-out engagements astatine Chicago Shakespeare Theater successful Chicago, Center Theater Group astatine The Ahmanson Theatre successful Los Angeles, Shakespeare Theatre Company successful Washington D.C., and American Conservatory Theater successful San Francisco. The accumulation premiered astatine nan Leeds Playhouse successful nan UK earlier transferring to nan Ambassadors Theatre successful nan West End, wherever it received a Laurence Olivier Award information this twelvemonth for Best Entertainment aliases Comedy Play.
Joining nan producing squad for nan Broadway tally is Jason Blum, laminitis and CEO of Blumhouse, nan original shaper of nan Paranormal Activity movie franchise.
Director Barrett said successful a connection today, “New York is my location distant from home. I fell successful emotion pinch nan metropolis erstwhile making Sleep No More fifteen years ago, and ever marveled astatine nan measurement audiences engaged pinch nan show. Having seen nan unthinkable responses to Paranormal arsenic it has toured nan US, I’m beyond excited that it will beryllium coming to Broadway and cannot hold to spot really New Yorkers react.”
Said Holloway, “That Paranormal Activity has earned nan chance to problem nan slumber of Broadway audiences, that they’ll beryllium immersed successful nan waking nightmare we’ve had nan privilege to make, is nan worldly of dreams. I connection it’s dissimilar thing other connected nan American shape correct now; a activity of horror, bosom and absolute mischief borne from 1 of nan astir profound collaborations of my career.”
“Paranormal Activity changed nan scary landscape,” said Josh Silverman, President, Global Products & Experiences, Paramount, “and bringing nan franchise to Broadway allows america to proceed expanding that world successful a bold and immersive way. By combining nan franchise’s signature suspense pinch nan powerfulness of unrecorded theater, this accumulation delivers an unforgettable unrecorded acquisition for nan audience.”
Paranormal Activity will characteristic scenic and costume creation by Fly Davis (Caroline, Or Change 2021), illusions creation by Chris Fisher (Stranger Things: The First Shadow), lighting creation by Anna Watson (Giant), sound creation by Gareth Fry (Harry Potter and nan Cursed Child), and video and projections creation by Luke Halls (The Lehman Trilogy).
By statement pinch Paramount Pictures and Solana Films, Paranormal Activity is simply a Melting Pot accumulation successful relation pinch Paramount Pictures. Produced by Simon Friend, Hanna Osmolska, Ken Davenport, Gavin Kalin Productions, Seaview, Crooked Letter, Blumhouse, John Gore Organization, Michael Ngo/David Thomas Tao, Olympus Theatricals/FineWomen Productions, Amplify Pictures, Robina Riccitiello, Lone Pine Theatricals. Executive Producer is Seaview.
Paranormal Activity is produced successful relation pinch Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Shakespeare Theatre Company and American Conservatory Theatre.
A new installment of nan movie franchise has been group by Paramount for May 2027. Producers are Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Jason Blum arsenic good arsenic nan franchise’s original creator Oren Peli connected behalf of Solana Films.
The original 2007 Paranormal Activity film, written and directed by Oren Peli and brought to nan surface by Blumhouse and Solana Films, utilized nan recovered movie format successful telling nan communicative of a young mates haunted by a supernatural beingness wrong their home. The franchise includes Paranormal Activity 2 (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), The Marked Ones (2014), The Ghost Dimension (2015) and Next of Kin (2021).
