It looks like we may end up seeing Stephen King’s classic horror story The Shining come to Broadway as a stage production. It’s currently being developed by Simon Stephens, who most recently directed the revival of West Side Story.
According to Forbes, the play will premiere in London’s West End before heading to Broadway. King has actually always wanted to see The Shining hit the stage, and, in 2014, after he permitted a pair of playwrights to turn it into a play, he said:
“I don’t know what the hold-up is. I’d love for this to happen.”
There were eventually two Shining stage productions that got developed. In 2014, a local Omaha theatre staged the story and in 2016, an opera was made, and it debuted in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Both productions were met with positive reviews, but neither of them made it to Broadway. That might actually happen with Stephens leading the charge on it.
If The Shining ever does make it to Broadway, I’ll definitely be flying out to New York City to see it… if the reviews are good.