Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is far and away the most shocking entertainment news of the year—topping anything from Game of Thrones or Star Wars or the Republican presidential nomination (zing! I jest, I jest). A real, bona fide Harry Potter 8 never seemed possible. Jo Rowling always disavowed it, although never with absolute finality. And now it’s coming… not in the form of a novel, but as two plays. Two plays that pick up the story a good number of years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Two plays that are, as far as we know, only opening in London—a city that isn’t even in America. But let’s be real: Obviously it’s going to come to the United States. But the question is when.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Premiere Date: When’s It Coming Stateside?

We are in the early stages of preparing for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child—or should I say Harry Potter 8. What’s the opposite of the five stages of grief? I think they might be the same, because man, I’m in denial. It’s hard to even believe. Harry Potter and Albus Potter, hangin’ out on stage, and coming to London’s West End in summer 2016. It’s shocking. It seems too good to be true. The only hiccup so far is that Jo Rowling is only co-writing it, but then again, she isn’t a playwright, and one of the other two writers, Jack Thorne, is. The other writer is the director of the two plays, which—awesomely—are intended to be viewed on the same day or on consecutive nights. Rowling has creative control over the story decisions, too, so this is really Harry Potter, not some knock-off.

Oh, and it’s already sold out for all of 2016. Yeesh.

So is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child going to come to Broadway? Of course it is. It’s going to be hugely successful—see that part about selling out its entire first run the morning sales opened—and Harry Potter is beloved all over the world, not just in the lands of the Angles, Saxons and Scots. As Deadline points out, both of the producing teams behind the project have done several successful West End-to-Broadway transitions before, too, so the future of this production is clearly not an afterthought.

The question about timing is harder to answer. The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiere date on the West End is June 7, 2016 for previews (the official site says late May) and July 30, 2016 for the final version. It’s running for four months, then opening again in 2017 for a winter run and then another summer run. After that, your guess is as good as mine. But the question is: Will Harry Potter and the Cursed Child come to Broadway before that summer 2017 West End run? If it does, it will mean there are two separate productions, something that generally Just Isn’t Done. So that means, unless they make a huge exception—which they well might, considering how big Harry Potter is—you’re going to have to trek to London to see Harry Potter and the Cursed Child… or wait until late 2017 and then trek to New York City.