My partner is mad on HP. I can take it or leave it so maybe my opinion won’t match some here. As someone completely impartial and with no connection to the original characters I thought this was entertaining enough. The effects are amazing. I think 3 hours is too long but other than that it’s a solid show. Can’t understand why people are upset about gay undertones - they were so subtle that if that upsets anyone they need to give their head a wobble. Don’t get upset their kids are watching scary dementors and loud bangs but do because 2 boys simply briefly hug. Have a word.

We watched the showed recently when visiting New York, this show is great, if you love Harry Potter and have read the books or watched the films you will totally understand the plot. We had great seats which we managed to purchase the morning of the show! We felt for the dress circle these were great valve for money!

You can really tell this is a shortened version. The start has actors saying their lines so fast you can barely catch what is going on. Harry, unfortunately, was a real let down. Steven Haggard seems to have earnt the lines and that's it, no stage presence at all. Scorpions was definitely the stand out.

It would have been 6 out of 5 but there was no Harry potter themed music which was disappointing! I'm guessing that was something to do with copyright or something. Truly amazing show though. Amazing special effects (maybe even real magic because some of it was unreeaaaaal!) I would 100% recommend it to anyone and everyone

Really amazing show! Bravo! The special effects were awesome and it was a bit long but well worth it! We got ticktesto sit in the orchestra last minute the day before at the tkts booth in Times Square and was well worth it. Definitely a must see broadway show and won’t be disappointed!

I saw Harry Potter and the Cursed Child last night and it completely blew me out of this world. I have seen Hadestown, Phantom of the Opera, and Moulin Rouge, and however much I loved those, Harry Potter has officially taken 1st place, this is a show I would pay double to go see again.I have seen the movies but I’m not a crazy harry potter fan and I still loved every second of the show. I do recommend to watch the movies before seeing the show, it definitely helps you understand everything better. The show itself was amazingly done. The way the effects were done were worth seeing the show just by itself. I can say confidently if you took a young child to see this show you can convince them magic exists, because I have never seen such amazing live effects done so beautifully. The plot itself was also spectacular, there were plot twists you didn’t see coming and the actors played their part perfectly. The show overall was just perfection, sometimes I get up from watching a show, or even a movie and I say to myself “I wish they did this” but there is nothing I would change because words can’t even describe how amazing this broadway show is. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is what broadway is. If you are in New York and want to experience a broadway show, go see Harry Potter and the Cursed child, and if you live in New York, RUN, don’t walk and buy your tickets before the show closes. All in all, I wish I can give this show 100 standing ovations but in truth that won’t even be enough to applaud everyone and everything that put this together.

The special effects were incredibly fantastic. The actors were so-so. They spoke much too fast in disingenuous British accents and their acting skills are not the greatest. Some characters are misrepresented and not in keeping with the much loved Harry Potter series’s characters. It was however a good experience and made for a fun afternoon in New York City.

We are so glad we booked to see this show. Sitting down for breakfast we hadnt decided what show we were going to see that evening. It was a particulary rainy day and we were very lucky to get 2 of the last seats available for that evenings performance. The effects were great and we were talking about the show for days afterwards. :)

If you're at all hard of hearing some of the actors do not know how to project especially the young ones. I missed a lot of dialogue. They actually face away from the audience and talk to the other characters on the stage. It's just so annoying to watch a Broadway show where the actors don't know how to act on stage HOWEVER, the staging and the technical part of it the magical scenes are 5 stars. Still if you're a fan I would tell you not to miss it.

Kids wanted to see this. There were some good effects. Sound quality was not great. Seats are not great and I had my view obscured by a guy sitting two (!) rows in front of me. The story seemed crammed together and way too fast. My kids liked it though, I thought it was incoherent and really inconsistent in quality.