Harry Potter author JK Rowling is working on a British stage show about the boy wizard's early years.
Rowling will not write the play but she will co-produce and collaborate with the writer.
She has sold more than 450 million copies of the Harry Potter books, which were also made into a blockbuster film series.
Rowling is due to start the project early next year, working with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender.
"Over the years I have received countless approaches about turning Harry Potter into a theatrical production," Rowling said on her website.
"But Sonia and Colin's vision was the only one that really made sense to me, and which had the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy I thought appropriate for bringing Harry's story to the stage."
The first Potter novel, published in 1997, sees the orphaned Harry find out he has magical powers.
Rowling's website revealed the play will explore the previously untold story of Harry's early years as an orphan and outcast when he lived with his cruel non-magical aunt and uncle.
Charting Harry's lonely childhood when he was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs Rowling said it would offer "a unique insight into the heart and mind of the now legendary young wizard".
Rowling said she had not yet chosen a writer or director for the play.
Rowling working on Potter spin-off film
The author finished Harry's wizarding adventures in 2007, but has since kept busy by writing two novels for adults and starting work on a new Potter spin-off film series.
Her first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, won mixed reviews when it was published last year.
But in July she was unmasked as the real author of a critically acclaimed detective novel The Cuckoo's Calling, which she had published under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
In September she revealed she is to make her screenwriting debut with a Harry Potter spin-off film series.
It will feature magical zoologist Newt Scamander, the author of Harry's textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.
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