Cinderella - 2024 - West End Articles Page 5

With rehearsals currently underway for Katherine Moar’s world premiere Ragdoll, Jermyn Street Theatre revealed the first two productions in its 2026 Season. Learn more here!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 22, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.

Next week, 54 BELOW will presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including WRITE OUT LOUD, FEAT. TAYLOR IMAN JONES, JULIA KNITEL, plus more. See the full lineup here!

Classic Stage Company has announced full casting for Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s The Baker’s Wife, starring Ariana DeBose and Scott Bakula. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, the musical will open CSC’s 2025–26 season, running October 23–December 14, 2025, at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater.

In just over 7 weeks, Christmas will come early to the Aldwych Theatre when Joel Montague, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Aled Jones MBE will star in the smash hit musical ELF as Buddy, Jovie and Walter Hobbs respectively.

Regal Entertainments Ltd will present Dick Whittington - the first time in the company's 25-year history. The tale will run from Friday 28 November to Sunday 11 January 2026.

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for its swashbuckling Christmas production Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure, a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Bristol-inspired tale of hidden treasure and daring deeds.

Producers of the Broadway musical The Great Gatsby announced that stage and screen star Ryan McCartan will play his final performance this November. We have all of the details!

It is bad for the state if Broadway falters. Broadway will falter if investment dries up. It is as simple as that. (I’m not sure how the “backfill” idea is in keeping with the idea that the credit is designed to stimulate investment, as that investment will have already occurred, but I also see the argument that folks who decided to invest in shows opening later in the fall were expecting the credit, and they may not invest in the future if they feel they were shafted this go round.)

Sadie Dickerson, who is making her Broadway debut, will play Sandra Dee and Broadway and Screen star Sarah Hyland will play Connie Francis in Just in Time on Broadway. We have all of the details.

All new rehearsal photos have been released of Nicola Roberts from the BRIT Award-winning pop group Girls Aloud, as she rehearses for the West End production of the multi award-winning musical Hadestown. 

BroadwayWorld has just learned the complete cast for the first-ever Broadway revival of CHESS. Find out who will join previously announced Tony Award winner Aaron Tveit, Emmy Award nominee Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher. We have all of the details!

Next month, 54 BELOW, Broadway’s Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Paloma Diamond, Chester Gregory, and many more! See the full lineup here.

The Shaw Festival has unveiled its 64th season today, set to begin in April 2026, featuring Funny Girl and more. See the full lineup here and learn more about the season!

​​​​​​​Nashville Ballet has announced the promotion of Katie Vasilopoulos to Director of Operations. Vasilopoulos will oversee the financial, organizational and operational health of the company. 

Following high demand from fans, Brandy and Monica have announced additional dates for their highly anticipated co-headlining The Boy Is Mine Tour. The tour now includes second shows in Los Angeles and Atlanta plus Chicago, along with newly announced shows in Nashville, TN and Kansas City, MO.

Billy Porter, who was set to headline Manchester Pride this past weekend, pulled out of the festival the day of due to illness. Learn more and read the statement here.

Pace University's Sands College of Performing Arts announced the appointment of three distinguished artists to its faculty for Fall 2025. Learn more about the new appointments here!

A much-loved repertoire of the National Ballet of Japan. This production, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, is among the best of many 'Cinderella' ballets, and has been performed by the Royal Ballet and other leading ballet companies around the world.

Following productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Signature Theatre in DC, and Theatre Horizon/Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Alex Bechtel's Penelope will return to Joe's Pub.

54 Below will present the 10th Annual Harvard–Yale Cantata, a one-night-only event that will bring alumni and current students of Harvard and Yale together for a head-to-head musical theater showdown.

Inside Broadway has announced its lineup of 2025-2026 theatre programming available for New York City public school students from elementary to high school across the five boroughs.

International music artist Nicola Roberts from the BRIT Award-winning group Girls Aloud, will join the West End production of multi award-winning Hadestown in the role of Persephone.

The Great Gatsby is giving fans the chance to dance on the Broadway Theatre stage! The hit Broadway musical is hosting a competition in which fans will be able to take part in a New Money: Fan Edit video.

The full company for the first-ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s internationally acclaimed book The Hunger Games and Lionsgate’s hit motion picture of the same name has been revealed.