Emma Rice News

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Sam Archer who plays Lockwood, Edgar Linton and The Moors in 'Wuthering Heights.'

Op 11 juni 2023 vindt in het Holland Festival de Nederlandse première plaats van de Britse 5-sterren muziektheatervoorstelling Wuthering Heights in DeLaMar in Amsterdam. Een van Londens invloedrijkste regisseurs, Emma Rice, bewerkte het literaire meesterwerk van Emily Brontë tot een vurige theatrale ervaring, met livemuziek, humor, poppenspel en dans. Wuthering Heights werd lovend ontvangen in Londen en toert op dit moment door de Verenigde Staten.

With just a week to go before tickets go on sale for the 2023 summer season, Pitlochry Festival Theatre has today announced further details on this year's creative line up, as well as the world première of a new Scottish musical in the Theatre's Studio performance space.

The full cast and creative team have been announced for Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, adapted for the stage by Emma Rice. Learn more about the show here!

McCarter Theatre will host the internationally-acclaimed UK production of Wuthering Heights by groundbreaking theatre-maker EMMA RICE and her celebrated theatre company Wise Children.  Live music, dance, puppetry, and a dash of impish irreverence combine in an intoxicating revenge tragedy for our time. 

Following almost 14 years leading Shakespeare’s Globe, Chief Executive and Trustee Neil Constable has advised the Board that he will be stepping down from the role by the end of 2023.

St. Ann’s Warehouse and Good Chance will bring The Jungle back to St. Ann’s, where it made its sold-out American Premiere in 2018. See performance dates, how to purchase tickets, and more.

The National Youth Theatre (NYT) has announced free auditions around the country in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London and Manchester this February. Young people will also be able to audition online using the National Youth Theatre Hub.

The Wallis presents the Los Angeles premiere of Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights, opening January 11, 2023. Emma Rice directs her own adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic. This engagement is a National Theatre, Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal Co-Production in Association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I had the opportunity to query Sam Archer, one of Wise Children’s leading players, on his history with Emma Rice, as well as with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

One of my favourite theatrical moments of the year at Theatre Royal Bath was Into the Woods: a trippy version of Stephen Sondheim's musical, thanks to Terry Gilliam's surreal Monty Python-esque imagination. This mind-bending show deserves space in the West End soon.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced an exciting line up of world premières, classic plays, new writing and a smash-hit musical for its 2023 summer season

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's WorldStage Series returns with groundbreaking theatermaker Emma Rice's exuberant reimagining of Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece, Wuthering Heights. 

What did our critic think of WUTHERING HEIGHTS at Berkeley Repertory Theatre?

See brand-new production photos from the West Coast premiere of Wise Children's Wuthering Heights, now playing at Berkeley Repertory Theatre through Sunday, January 1, 2023.

The National Theatre has announced three new productions for 2023 and the revival of the critically acclaimed The Father and the Assassin. A new production devised by The PappyShow will tour directly to 55 schools across England, and National Theatre Live brings The Crucible, Othello and GOOD to cinema goers around the world.

Performances of the West Coast premiere of Emma Rice's critically acclaimed Wuthering Heights—a reimagined version of Emily Brontë's gothic masterpiece with live music, dance, passion, hope, and a dash of impish irreverence, creating an intoxicating revenge tragedy for today—begin this Friday, November 18 at Berkeley Repertory Theater's Roda Theatre (2015 Addison St., Berkeley).

The Genesis Foundation today announced the full list of panellists taking part in the second of their Genesis Conversations, in partnership with Bristol Old Vic at the theatre's historic venue on 15 November.

Wise Children has announced the return of the Wise Children Mentorship Scheme, following the success of the pilot in 2022, where the company mentored director and theatre-maker Meghan Doyle.

St. Ann's Warehouse, in association with Gina Moxley and Pan Pan, presents the American premiere of Moxley's award-winning, punk-propelled satire The Patient Gloria, directed by John McIlduff, November 16–December 4. Created at the height of #MeToo protest and empowerment, Moxley's production comes to the U.S. in a moment of grave peril for women's rights.

The Meaning of Zong is the boldly inventive debut play by Giles Terera whose performance in the original run at Bristol Old Vic won him the 2022 UK Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Play. The Meaning of Zong celebrates the power of the human spirit against adversity, and the journey to understand our place in the world.