Fans of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series know Luna Lovegood to be one of the most quirky, sincere and likable witches at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, so even muggles couldn’t ignore when Improv Cincinnati announced Luna: A Wizarding World Parody.
This musically-driven stage show chronicles the dreamy titular character’s travels across Midwestern America in search of a fantastic beast. Canonically, this unlicensed fan-fiction takes place five years after the events in book seven of the series, Deathly Hallows.
Luna is pursuing her interest in magizoology, the same field of study shared by Newt Scamander, the protagonist of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This is put on by hardcore HP devotees, so pregame with some butterbeers for an authentic wizard’s Friday night out.
8 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 6. $20. Clifton Performance Theatre, 404 Ludlow Ave., Clifton, improvcincinnati.com.
This article appears in Sep 5-12, 2018.