Rupert Grint is heading back to Ron Weasley, this time on Broadway. He will join Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre on February 2 for a 17-week run that is scheduled to end May 30.
The move puts one of the original film series faces into a stage production that has already shown it can draw hard. Grint, who played Ron in all eight Harry Potter films, said he cannot wait to meet the character again in this stage of life, calling the return both full-circle and “very familiar and completely new” now that both he and Ron are fathers. He is 38 now, and he was 11 when he was cast in the films.
That is the pull here: a performer returning to the role that made him famous, but in a story set 19 years after the final novel, where Ron is a husband and father. The play has already benefited from the arrival of Tom Felton, who began performing as Draco Malfoy on November 11, 2025, and became the first member of the original film cast to join the stage production anywhere in the world. In the ten weeks before Felton arrived, the show averaged about $1.07 million a week and was playing to roughly 84 percent capacity; in his first full week, it grossed $2,973,448 and sold out every seat.
The numbers kept climbing after that. Over the week ending December 28, 2025, the production took in $3,709,875 across nine performances, its highest weekly gross at the Lyric and well above the old peak of $2,525,850 set during Christmas week in 2018. Eight of the ten highest-grossing weeks in the Broadway run came after Felton joined, and the show played at or above 95 percent capacity for 26 consecutive weeks, with 14 of those weeks at 100 percent.
Grint’s arrival extends that film-to-stage crossover rather than starting it. He made his Broadway debut in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play in 2014, playing Frank Finger and winning the BroadwayWorld Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Before that, he made his stage debut in the West End in Mojo and won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best London Newcomer. Since then he has starred for four seasons as Julian Pearce in Servant and appeared in Knock at the Cabin, Snatch, Sick Note, Cabinet of Curiosities, Driving Lessons, Cherrybomb, Wild Target, CBGB and Moonwalkers. His next screen credit is the horror feature Nightborn.
The remaining question is not whether Grint knows the part. It is how much of the 17-week window he will actually play and whether this return is the start of a longer stage chapter or a single, tightly timed run built to capitalize on a production that has found new life by bringing the original films back into the room.
