Michael Longhurst

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Caroline, or Change

Director

Amadeus

Director

Constellations US

Director

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Director 

Teenage Dick
Writer Mike Lew
Starring
  • Susan Wokoma
  • Daniel Monks
    •  

    Mike Lew’s darkly comic take on Shakespeare’s Richard III has its UK debut. 


    Donmar Warehouse
    Europe
    Writer David Greig

    This prophetic early masterpiece from David Greig explores our complex relationship to Europe – as a continent, a refuge, an idea.


    Donmar Warehouse
    The Son
    Writer Florian Zeller
    Starring
  • Amanda Abbington
  • Laurie Kynaston
  • John Light
  • Oseloka Obi
  • Amaka Okafor
  • Martin Turner
    •  

    UK premiere of the final part of the trilogy comprised of the Olivier Award-winning The Father (Theatre Royal Bath, Tricycle Theatre, West End, National Tour) and the critically-acclaimed The Mother.

    Kiln Theatre
    Caroline, or Change
    Writer Tony Kushner
    Starring
  • Sharon D. Clarke
  • Jennifer Saayeng
  • Ako Mitchell
    •  

    Adaptation of Tony Kushner's poignant and exuberant musical. First performed at Chichester Festival Theatre. Hampstead Theatre 12 March - 21 April 2018. West End November 2018-April 2019.

    Chichester Festival Theatre/Hampstead Theatre/ The Playhouse
    Amadeus
    Writer Peter Shaffer
    Starring
  • Lucian Msamati
    •  

    National Theatre's production of Peter Shaffer's modern classic, featuring the Southbank Sinfonia.

    Currently in its second run at the National.

    National Theatre
    Belleville
    Starring
  • James Norton
  • Malachi Kirby
  • Imogen Poots
  • Faith Alabi
    •  

    A newly married American couple in Paris start to discover their lives are not as perfect as they imagined.

    Donmar Warehouse
    Gloria
    Writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

    A razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is moving up the ladder and selling out to the highest bidder.

    Hampstead Theatre
    They Drink It In The Congo
    Writer Adam Brace
    Starring
  • Kirsty Besterman
  • Fiona Button
  • Richie Campbell
    •  
    Almeida Theatre
    The Winter's Tale
    Writer William Shakespeare
    Starring
  • Simon Armstrong
  • Jessica Baglow
    •  
    The Globe
    Linda
    Writer Penelope Skinner
    Starring
  • Noma Dumezweni
    •  

    A play about the invisibility of older women and what it takes to have it all. 

    Royal Court
    A Number
    Writer Caryl Churchill
    Starring
  • John Shrapnel
  • Lex Shrapnel
    •  

    Caryl Churchill’s play about a man who, at the age of 35, learns that he is not an only child

    Nuffield Theatre and Young Vic
    Carmen Disruption
    Writer Simon Stephens

    Michael directs Simon Stephens' new play, a reimagination of Bizet's opera Carmen.

    Almeida Theatre
    Constellations - UK Tour
    Evening Standard Award for Best Play
    Writer Nick Payne
    Starring
  • Joe Armstrong
  • Louise Brealey
    •  
    UK Tour
    Constellations US
    Writer Nick Payne
    Starring
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Ruth Wilson
    •  

    Broadway transfer of Nick Payne's play about a relationship between a man and a woman that plays out in multiple different ways in parallel universes. 

    Constellations has been nominated for the Drama League Awards 2014-2015 for Outstanding Production of a Broadway of Off-Broadway Play and Distinguished Performance Award. 

    Samuel J Friedman Theatre
    Tis Pity She's a Whore
    Writer John Ford
    Starring
  • Max Bennett
  • Fiona Button
    •  

    New production of the John Ford classic. 

    Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
    Bad Jews
    Writer Joshua Harmon
    Starring
  • Jenna Augen
  • Ilan Goodman
    •  

    Michael Longhurst directs Joshua Harmon's viciously hilarious brawl over family, faith and legacy

    Theatre Royal Bath and St James
    The Art of Dying

    Starring Nick Payne in the Jerwood Upstairs

    Royal Court Theatre
    Dealer's Choice
    Writer Patrick Marber
    Starring
  • Ian Burfield
  • Cary Crankson
  • Richard Hawley
    •  

    Patrick Marber's play is about male camaraderie and obsession, set in the gritty world of amateur poker

    Royal and Derngate Theatre
    The Blackest Black
    Writer Jeremy Brock
    Starring
  • Ian Bonar
  • John Light
  • Charity Wakefield
    •  
    Jeremy Brock's play about the tempestuous relationship between an astronomer and an artist
    The Hampstead Theatre
    The World of Extreme Happiness
    Writer Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    Starring
  • Vera Chok
  • Junix Inocian
  • Sarah Lam
    •  

    New play about contemporary China

    The Shed, National Theatre
    The History Boys
    Writer Alan Bennett
    Starring
  • Ross Anderson
  • Oliver Coopersmith
  • Will Featherstone
  • Edward Judge
    •  
    Comedy about a group of boys studying for their entrance exams to Oxbridge
    Crucible, Sheffield
    Cannibals
    Writer Rory Mullarkey
    Starring
  • Simon Armstrong
  • Ricky Champ
  • Triicia Kelly
  • Laurence Spellman
    •  
    World premiere of Rory Mullarkey's new play about a woman coping during war
    Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
    If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
    Starring
  • Annie Funke
  • Michelle Gomez
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Brian F. O'Byrne
    •  

    American début of Nick Payne's incisive look into an ordinary family

    Roundabout Theatre, New York
    Constellations
    Nominated: South Bank Theatre Award
    Starring
  • Sally Hawkins
  • Rafe Spall
    •  
    Play exploring love and free will through quantum phsyics
    Royal Court Theatre
    On the Record
    Producer Ice and Fire
    Writer Christine Bacon & Noah Birksted-Breen
    Starring
  • Nathalie Armin
  • Paul Bhattacharjee
  • Michelle Bonnard
  • Kika Markham
    •  
    A combination of verbatim testimony and dramatic reconstruction that presents journalists' stories from around the globe
    Arcola Theatre
    Midnight Your Time
    Writer Adam Brace
    Starring
  • Diana Quick
    •  
    Play about a woman who talks to her daughter once a week on a webcam
    High Tide Festival & Assembly Rooms Edinburgh
    66 Books
    Michael directed a number of responses to the Bible as part of the epic performance cycle commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Bush's new theatre
    Bush Theatre
    Remembrance Day
    Longlisted: Evening Standard Best New Play
    Writer Aleksey Scherbak
    Starring
  • Ruby Bentall
  • Nick Court
  • Michelle Fairley
  • Ewan Hooper
    •  
    Latvian play examining the politics of remembrance days
    Royal Court Theatre
    It's About Time
    Producer Nabokov
    Romantic comedy play with music
    Latitude Festival Theatre Arena
    On The Beach
    Nominated and Special Commendation: John Whiting Award
    Writer Steve Waters
    Starring
  • Susan Brown
  • Robin Soans
  • Geoffrey Streatfeild
  • Stephanie Street
    •  
    Part of the double bill, The Contingency Plan, about climate change
    Bush Theatre
    Stovepipe
    Nominated: What's On Stage Best Off-West End Production, Sunday Times’ top ten theatre events of the decade
    Writer Adam Brace
    Starring
  • Christian Bradley
  • Shaun Dooley
  • Niall Macgregor
  • Eleanor Matsuura
    •  
    Drama set in Iraq about a missing mercenary
    High Tide, National Theatre & Bush Theatre
    Dirty Butterfly
    Jerwood Directors Award
    Writer Debbie Tucker Green

    Play about voyeurism, power and guilt, winner of Jerwood Directors Award 2007

    Young Vic
    Gaudeamus
    Writer Peter Morris
    Starring
  • Chipo Chung
  • Kika Markham
  • Travis Oliver
    •  
    Comic re imagining of Ecclesiazusae, based in an American university where anybody offered sex must accept or they will be expelled
    Arcola Theatre
    Cargo
    Writer Ben Richards
    Starring
  • Maria Corcobado
  • Steven Miller
  • Ted Pleasance
  • Ian Rose
    •  
    Four Croatian emigrants ponder their future in Britain as they sit in the back of a lorry
    Oval House Theatre
    Guardians
    Writer Peter Morris
    Starring
  • Myanna Buring
  •  
    Two-hander of alternating monologues from a female American soldier at Abhu Ghraib and a British journalist with a penchant for S&M
    Pleasance, Edinburgh & Theatre 503
    Doctor Faustus
    Writer Christopher Marlowe
    Classic play about a man who sells his soul to the devil
    Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham

    Assistant Director 

    A Respectable Wedding
    Director Joe Hill-Gibbons
    Writer Bertolt Brecht
    Starring
  • James Corden
  • Lloyd Hutchinson
  • Doon Mackichan
  • Martin Savage
    •  
    Comedy about a disastrous wedding, part of a Brecht double bill
    Young Vic
    Gaslight
    Director Peter Gill
    Writer Patrick Hamilton
    Starring
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Rosamund Pike
  • Sally Tatum
  • Andrew Woodall
    •  
    Victorian-set melodrama about a woman who is convinced by her husband that she is going mad
    The Old Vic
    The Family Plays
    Director Joe Hill-Gibbons
    Writer Joakim Pirinen & Natalia Vorozhbit
    Starring
  • Lewis Lempereur-Palmer
  • Daisy Lewis
  • Sam Spiro
    •  
    Double bill of plays, The Good Family and The Khomenko Family Chronicles following the theme of irony at contemporary existence
    Royal Court Theatre
    Arabian Nights
    Producer Royal Shakespeare Company
    Director Dominic Cooke
    Writer Dominic Cooke
    Starring
  • Silas Carson
  • Ayesha Dharker
  • Marcus Fernando
  • Simon Trinder
    •  
    Adaptation of the Arabian Nights stories using puppets to tell the various tales
    The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon