Michael Longhurst News

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.

New rehearsal photos have been released for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind, starring Sheridan Smith and Romesh Ranganathan, ahead of its West End engagement at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 9 December 2025 to 28 February 2026.

Next to Normal will be available to stream on BroadwayHD. This three-time Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical stars Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, and Eleanor Worthington-Cox.

This Winter, National Theatre at Home will welcome a trio of powerful new titles for streaming worldwide — from a West End revival starring David Tennant, to an award-winning musical that redefined modern theatre, and more.

Michael Longhurst has joined the creative team for the new version of Boy George's hit musical Taboo, that Thomas Hopkins Productions (THP) has had in development for the past few years. 

Romesh Ranganathan will make his West End stage debut in a new production of Alan Ayckbourn's psychological comedy WOMAN IN MIND in a strictly limited West End run. Learn more here!

A new production of Alan Ayckbourn's psychological comedy WOMAN IN MIND will star Sheridan Smith in a strictly limited West End run at the Duke of York's Theatre.

All three are razor-sharp comedies, set across a single day, inviting audiences into vivid, pressurised worlds, and investigating how we both understand and misunderstand each other.

The 2024 West End production of Next to Normal, which was filmed last year and recently aired as part of PBS' Great Performances line-up, will come to UK cinemas later this year.