Rupert Grint Returns as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway
Rupert Grint will reprise his role as Ron Weasley in the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with a 16-week run at the Lyric Theatre from 2 February to 30 May 2027 (WhatsOnStage).
Grint announced the casting in a statement on 26 August 2026, confirming what fans of the film franchise had speculated about since the stage production opened. He played Ron Weasley across all eight Harry Potter films, from The Philosopher's Stone in 2001 to The Deathly Hallows — Part 2 in 2011. This will be the first time he has performed the character on stage.
The Broadway production of Cursed Child — a two-part play by Jack Thorne, based on an original story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and director John Tiffany — has been running at the Lyric Theatre since 2018. The play picks up the story nineteen years after the end of the final film, with Ron, Harry and Hermione now adults sending their own children off to Hogwarts.
Grint is no stranger to the stage, on either side of the Atlantic. He made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth's Mojo, opposite Ben Whishaw, and his Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play, alongside Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane (WhatsOnStage). His return to Broadway will place him back in a role he inhabited for a decade on screen.
He steps into a production that has already seen one of his former co-stars make the same leap. Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, has been performing an extended run as the same character in the Broadway cast and will give his final performance on 3 January — roughly a month before Grint takes over the Lyric Theatre stage.
The pattern is a striking one. The Cursed Child stage production has, since its 2016 premiere in the West End, existed as a separate continuity from the films — different actors, different interpretations, same characters. Bringing back the original screen cast blurs that line deliberately, trading on two decades of audience familiarity.
For fans, the appeal is straightforward. Grint's Ron Weasley was the comic heartbeat of the film series — warm, bumbling, fiercely loyal. Seeing him inhabit the role in the flesh, in a play that fast-forwards Ron into middle age, offers something the films never could: the actor and the character growing older together, in real time.
The West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continues its open-ended run at the Palace Theatre in London. No corresponding casting change has been announced for the London company.
