Potted Potter is showing at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto until March 25th. Click here to visit the official site for more details or visit TicketKing to book your seats!

In the meantime, the National Post brings is the following story about the creators of the show:

For diehard fans, the Harry Potter phenomenon consists of seven books (3,000 pages plus), eight movies (1,178 minutes) and countless hours spent standing in midnight madness lines awaiting the release of each new instalment in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series. Now imagine trying to cram all that material — from Hogwarts to Horcruxes — into a 70-minute live performance. Surely there must be some wizardry involved.

“I think 400, 500 pages of plot are chucked aside to make room for a silly hat and a funny voice,” says Daniel Clarkson, one of the two magic-mad minds behindPotted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience, a theatrical parody that recaps the entire Potter saga in the time it takes to read a few chapters. “We are able to drop things and sort of do our own interpretation of things. We do try and keep to the story as much as we can.”

Together with Jeff Turner, Clarkson re-appropriates the Hogwarts universe with the help of just a handful of wigs and props. The Potted boys, who have miraculously survived Rowling’s legal inquisition on parodies and adaptations, have travelled from London’s West End to Toronto’s Panasonic Theatre for the show’s North American debut, which kicked off this past week.

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From the Hollywood Reporter:

LONDON – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant will be among 46 “core participants” who will have the right to give evidence in person at the Judicial inquiry into phone-hacking and media intrusion, Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry said Wednesday.

Rowling, Miller and Grant will be one of a group of celebrities, politicans, sportsmen and members of the public who have been selected to give evidence about their experience of press intrusion, many of whom have been victims of phone-hacking by The News of the World and potentially other newspapers.

The Leveson Inquiry was set up by British Prime Minister David Cameronin the wake of the phone-hacking crisis at Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Its remit is to look at the broader issues of media ethics and practices, including the relationships between newspapers, the police and politicians that have been central in the News International criminal investigation.

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