Michael Longhurst News

Tom Stoppard's Jumpers will be revived at Hampstead Theatre later this year, alongside the premieres of three new plays. Learn more about the lineup here!

PBS Great Performances has made available the full filmed performance of the 2024 West End production of Next to Normal, starring Caissie Levy. Initially debuting on the TV program in 2025, the musical can now be watched in its entirety for free on YouTube.

Maria Friedman leads the cast of the Tony Award-winning musical KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Hampstead Theatre, joined by Alice Fearn, Peter Hannah, Niamh Perry and others, with two performers making their professional stage debuts.

Caissie Levy has stated that she will not be starring in Next to Normal on Broadway. The Ragtime Tony Award nominee took to Instagram to reveal to fans that she will not be reprising her role as 'Diana Goodman' in New York City.

Charly Clive, JJ Feild, Sally Phillips, and Sam Swainsbury will star in RELICS, a new dark comedy by Olivier Award nominee Ben Ockrent, directed by Michael Longhurst at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre.

Three-time Olivier Award winner Maria Friedman will star as Kimberly in the European premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical KIMBERLY AKIMBO at Hampstead Theatre, directed by Michael Longhurst.

Directed by Michael Longhurst (Constellations, Caroline or Change, and former Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse) this spellbinding revival explores one woman’s fractured reality with heart and humour.

Ghostlight Records has released Next to Normal: Original London Cast Recording as a special 2-CD set. The album is also available in streaming and digital formats.

Hampstead Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Michael Frayn's acclaimed play Copenhagen. The play delves into the historical meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

A new stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby may be heading to the West End, led by Bridgerton star Regé-Jean Page. Learn more about the upcoming production here!

Ghostlight Records has announced the release of NEXT TO NORMAL – ORIGINAL LONDON CAST RECORDING as a special two-CD set on Friday, February 27. The album is currently available in streaming and digital formats.

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen will receive its first London staging since its 1998 premiere in a new production. Opening at Hampstead Theatre in March. The cast will feature Alex Kingston and Richard Schiff.

The York Theatre will present a concert version of Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World for one night only as its 2026 spring benefit. The event will take place on March 30 at Theatre at St. Jean's. 

After a series of sold-out Australian seasons — including a five-star run at the Sydney Opera House — Yentl, Kadimah Yiddish Theatre's bold and acclaimed new adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's story has announced its final casting.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is January 8, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Directed by Michael Longhurst and starring Sheridan Smith as Susan and Romesh Ranganathan as Dr Bill, the show is now open at the Duke of York's Theatre. What did the critics think?

Alan Ayckbourn’s 1985 play Woman In Mind is a darkly comic look about mental disintegration and a mid-life ennui that would have rarely been spoken about forty years ago. In the first major West End revival since 2012, director Michael Longhurst presents a startling portrait of a woman who retreats into a fantasy world as a means of coping with her lack of purpose and love in her real life.

2025 was a stellar year from theatre, but now the New Year has rolled in, we can put away the festive decorations, throw out the last bit of leftover turkey and look forward to an even better twelve months of theatrical goodies.

David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori's five-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Kimberly Akimbo will make its much anticipated European premiere in a brand new production in 2026! Watch a new video featuring the show's Tony-winning creative team Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire, and the creatives behind the show's London production as they get ready to bring Kimberly's dream to life across the pond.

Hampstead Theatre will present a 2026 season that includes the European premiere of KIMBERLY AKIMBO, alongside five world and European premieres and the London stage directing debut of Stanley Tucci.