Rupert Grint is Playing Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Rupert Grint is playing Ron Weasley again, this time on stage. The actor joins Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre for seventeen weeks from 2 February 2027, and registration for early ticket access is already open.
Rupert Grint returns to Broadway
Nearly two decades after filming wrapped on the final film, Grint steps back into the role he first took on at the age of eleven. This time he plays the grown-up version.
The play is set nineteen years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with Ron now a father himself. That detail appears to have been part of the appeal.
Grint described the prospect as a “full-circle” moment: he played Ron as a child and returns to him now that they are both parents, which he says feels familiar and entirely new at once.
Seventeen weeks at the Lyric
The run goes from Tuesday 2 February through Sunday 30 May 2027. Grint takes over from Tom Felton, who leaves the production as the adult Draco Malfoy on 3 January 2027.
Felton’s presence has been no accident. Since he joined last November, ticket sales and attendance climbed sharply, and the producers are now repeating a formula that clearly worked.
Anyone hoping to book will need to move quickly. Registration for first access closes on Monday 31 August, the presale opens Tuesday 1 September at 11am ET, and general sales follow a day later at the same time.
Two Harry Potter eras collide
The timing is worth pausing on. Grint’s run begins six weeks after HBO’s series arrives, and the two productions are pulling in opposite directions.
On television, the story is being handed to an entirely new cast, with Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton and Alastair Stout taking over the Golden Trio. On stage, the producers are doing the reverse and bringing the original actors back.
For a few months in 2027, both versions will be running at once. Audiences will be able to watch a new Ron Weasley on screen and the original one on stage in the same week.
That gives the stage show a distinct pitch as the series takes over the conversation. While the fandom argues about who should play which role in the new adaptation, the Lyric Theatre is quietly offering the version nobody has to be convinced by.