

“Back in the day, we would joke about how the show would eventually be performed by a bunch of teenagers in capes,” said Cox. But your best bet might be to stop by your local high school, because as long as there are kids who grow up on Harry Potter-and the upcoming HBO Max series suggests that there will be some for quite a while- Puffs will continue ruling the stages of America’s high schools.

It’s also popular at community theaters-in the next few months, productions open in Bloomington, Illinois Searcy, Arkansas and Pensacola, Florida. But for now, if you want lighthearted wizard fun, Puffs is your best option. loosened up a little and we were six seasons into a goofy Puffs-style series on the CW. With Asteroid City, Wes Anderson Goes Where He Never Has Before Ten Years Ago, Megyn Kelly Decided I Should Be a Fox News Segment. “The Hottest Comic in America” Is Also a Conservative Hack There’s Something Odd Going On in Bathrooms at Taylor Swift’s “Eras’ tour Rowling’s authorized spinoffs, each one a multimillion-dollar wannabe franchise in the making? Why is Puffs such a blast, even though it recognizes all that is silly about its source material? And how on earth has Matt Cox not been sued into oblivion? How did a goofy semi-improvised show put on for two weeks at a tiny comedy club in New York become a student-theater powerhouse-the second-most-popular play for high school students in America? How does the modest Puffs sidestep the pitfalls that seem to doom all J.K. And it might be coming soon to a school auditorium near you.

Written by Matt Cox, the silly, self-aware Puffs is the most fun Harry Potter spinoff out there. It’s a satirical play called Puffs, and I watched my daughter and her classmates put it on as Yorktown High School’s fall production.

This spinoff is completely unauthorized by Rowling, Warner Bros., and the Ministry of Magic. But last fall, I found myself delighted by a Harry Potter spinoff that made me laugh, that surprised me, and that even made me think about the magic these stories exerted on me in the first place.
