Wuthering Heights (St. Ann's Warehouse) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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Production Covid-19 Safety ProtocolsShow-Score Member Reviews (52)
See it if You like Emily Brontë's novel. This show has incredible music and dancers, and actors. It wasn't like anything I'd seen before.
Don't see it if You expect to see a musical with a lot of songs. This is more of a play with lots of music and movement, and sometimes songs
See it if You appreciate original Story Telling by the brilliant Emma Rice. Staging, Acting, Singing, Music, & Dancing w/ Puppets are all marvelous!
Don't see it if You prefer a traditional portrayal of Wuthering Heights. You do not connect with innovative theater. Read more
See it if Sheer entertainment. Brontë meets theater of the absurd.
Don't see it if Long. Chaotic.
See it if you enjoy adventurous and intimate shows that push the envelope of musical theater. Great cast, cool staging, musicians on stage, energetic
Don't see it if you need to have a hero or sympathetic character in your show -- you will miss the point and won't enjoy it. Full of mental illness & death.
See it if you like original productions:part literary adaptation,part parody,part musical,part experimental and all theater,delightfully energetic fun
Don't see it if you don't have the patience for a long night (over 3 hours that could have been a little trimmed), dislike wild modern takes on the classics Read more
See it if you want to see an old story done in a fresh new way.
Don't see it if you are a Wuthering Heights fan and don't want to see the story treated in a non-traditional, tongue in cheek way.
See it if You like adaptations of classics and inventive theater that creates a tone and environment vs a literal recreation
Don't see it if You don’t like gothic stories, you prefer realism, you dislike long shows, you know what you like and don’t like to stray too far Read more
See it if You read a synopsis of the novel before the show. Amazing theater that should not be missed.
Don't see it if You have an mtv attention span and lack a sense of humor. This absorbing play is 2 hours 50 minutes
Critic Reviews (6)
"At nearly three hours, including the intermission, it asks an investment of time that’s absolutely worth it. I, for one, want to go again."
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"Those who don't know the book going in will certainly find in this production a reasonably engaging entry point into its themes of forbidden love and class struggle, but may ultimately find it all rather dated and emotionally remote."
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Rice's nimble company whisks us through Brontë's tumultuous tale, using every trick in the theatrical book to keep us up to speed and on our toes… And when Lucy McCormick, as Catherine, steps downstage, grabs a mic and hurls down curses on the world, this Wuthering Heights makes a convincing case that Emily Brontë is the very soul of punk.
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"Don’t work too hard keeping track of who’s related to or obsessed with whom. Just enjoy this rollicking tale, as the performers clearly do."
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"The dynamic ideas anchoring this production, its visual appeal and the uniformly strong performances of all of the actors give 'Wuthering Heights' much to recommend it, but clocking in at nearly three hours, it’s a long slog to the final payoff."
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Emma Rice’s jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie… Rice more or less restores Brontë’s characters and convoluted, multigenerational plot. But at the same time, she completely changes the tone… an enjoyable exercise in story theater, with puppetry and parody, song and dance, rock ‘n roll…. makes it more difficult for me to lose myself in the dark love story
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