With Stranger Things: The First Shadow launching its first preview performance tonight on Broadway, Netflix has announced Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow.　　Follow the cast and crew as they race against time to prepare the ambitious, critically acclaimed West End stage play, which opened at London’s Phoenix Theater in December 2023.　　Stranger Things: The First Shadow is written by Kate Trefry (“Stranger Things”), based on an original story by “Stranger Things” creators the Duffer Brothers, Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), and Trefry.　　Serving as a standalone prequel to the hit Netflix series, the Olivier Award-winning play is directed by Stephen Daldry and co-directed by Justin Martin.

爱丽丝（Keeley Hawes饰）和她相伴20年的伴侣哈里（Harry）搬入了他们梦寐以求的新家，哈里却不幸意外从楼梯滚落身亡。在他死后，爱丽丝相继发现了若干男人——包括她故去的前任——的种种秘密，而哈里似乎是所有人当中最卑劣的…… 　　本剧将以黑色喜剧的方式向观众如实呈现爱丽丝在伴侣去世后所经历的一段充满悲伤与爱的人生旅程。男人们往往喜欢把他们不愿意面对的东西塞进角落里藏起来，因此，在伴侣去世后，爱丽丝震惊的发现自己陷入了一场生死攸关的、充满欺骗与混乱的迷局中。