Harry Potter and the Cursed Child plans 2018 Broadway debut

After a hit debut on London's West End this summer, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is in talks to move to New York's Broadway in 2018, producers say.

The play, based on author J.K. Rowling's popular boy wizard character, is being planned for Broadway's Lyric Theater, which will undergo a multi-million dollar revamp to house the elaborate production, the show's producers say in a post on Rowling's website Pottermore.com.

The Lyric Theater is one of Broadway's largest venues, with nearly 1,900 seats, and has housed complex theatrical productions such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 2005 and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which ran from 2010 to 2014.