No wonder more and more members of the casts of the eight “Harry Potter” films are turning up onstage: After all, most of Hogwarts’ teaching staff seems to have been recruited from London’s West End.
This week came news that Rupert Grint, a.k.a. Ron Weasley, will make his Broadway debut in the fall, in a revival of the comedy “It’s Only a Play.” He’s just the latest Potter star to perform on a New York stage.
So what’s Emma Watson waiting for? Here’s who we’ve seen so far.
Daniel Radcliffe
Harry Potter himself has done three Broadway shows: “Equus” (2008), the musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (2011) and now “The Cripple of Inishmaan” (at the Cort Theatre until July 20).
Dude can carry a show, though he’s yet to snag a Tony nomination.
Kenneth Branagh
You can catch vain Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in the title role of “Macbeth” at the Park Avenue Armory through June 22. (Branagh even co-directed the show, for good measure.)
Jim Dale
Technically, Jim Dale wasn’t in any of the Potter movies, but he’s closely associated with J.K. Rowling’s creation: He read all seven audiobooks.
Dale talks about that experience — among other highlights of his long career — in his one-man show, “Just Jim Dale,” at the Laura Pels Theatre through Aug. 10.
Emma Thompson
Branagh’s former significant other — a k a Hogwarts’ Professor of Divination Sybill Trelawney — also finally graced our boards in 2014: She was Mrs. Lovett in the New York Philharmonic’s concert of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd.”
Turns out she can sing!
Harry Melling
Melling — who played Harry’s annoying rotund cousin, Dudley Dursley — likes to take risks.
The newly slim Melling played the Fool to Frank Langella’s King Lear at BAM in January, and wrote and starred in the recent one-man show “Peddling” at 59E59 Theaters.
Alan Rickman
Professor Severus Snape has long been a favorite of theatergoers. He was last seen as the charmingly arrogant writer of Broadway’s “Seminar” in 2011, the same year he headlined “John Gabriel Borkman” at BAM.
Fiona Shaw
The former Aunt Petunia Dursley put in two very different solo performances in 2013: in “The Testament of Mary” on Broadway, and in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” at BAM.
She somehow also found time to direct “Eugene Onegin” at the Metropolitan Opera.
Ciarán Hinds
Ireland’s formidable Hinds played Aberforth Dumbledore — the lesser-known Dumbledore. On stage, this guy takes a back seat to no one, as anyone who saw him in last year’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “The Night Alive” can attest.
Clémence Poésy
French actress Poésy played Fleur Delacour, who ended up marrying Ron Weasley’s brother Bill. In New York, she played Douglas Hodge’s love interest in Broadway’s 2012 “Cyrano de Bergerac.”