Burke Swanson Watched Stranger Things in the Dark, Now He’s Lighting Up Broadway

Burke Swanson Watched Stranger Things in the Dark, Now He’s Lighting Up Broadway

Life can be strange. Consider: Less than a decade after Burke Swanson first binged Netflix’s sci-fi smash Stranger Things on the couch with his sister, he’s on stage at the Marquis Theatre eight times a week playing James Hopper Jr. in Stranger Things: The First Shadow. Set in 1959, the immersive, chilling yet heartfelt origin story follows the students at Hawkins High. Hopper helps investigate a series of animal deaths that leads him straight t…