Etta Murfitt News

Tickets from just £25 for Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet. Passion and heartbreak collide in Matthew Bourne’s contemporary take on the timeless tale of two star-crossed young lovers. 

New Adventures and Sadler’s Wells have announced casting for Matthew Bourne’s ROMEO AND JULIET coming to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 October 2023.

New Adventures and Sadler's Wells have announced casting for Matthew Bourne's “ROMEO AND JULIET” which will tour to 13 UK venues including a five-week Summer Season at Sadler's Wells, ahead of a major international tour next year.

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.

Sadler's Wells has announced 1,000 £10 tickets will be available for young people to see Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet through Barclays Dance Pass when the production returns to Sadler's Wells in August 2023.

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.

Wolverhampton Grand Theatre announced that Matthew Bourne's New Adventures  will play Wolverhampton for the first time from Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 October 2023 with ROMEO AND JULIET, which gives Shakespeare's timeless story of forbidden love a scintillating injection of raw passion and youthful vitality.

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

New Adventures and Sadler's Wells have announced the return of Matthew Bourne's “ROMEO AND JULIET” with a 12-week UK Tour and five-week Summer Season at Sadler's Wells.

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

Watch a sneak peek at Wise Children's WUTHERING HEIGHTS playing Nov 18, 2022-Jan 1, 2023 at Berkeley Rep.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the West Coast premiere of Emma Rice’s critically acclaimed Wuthering Heights, a reimagined version of Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece. Performances begin Friday, November 18 and continue through Sunday, January 1, 2023.

The co-production with the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal, in association with Berkeley Repertory Theater, makes its US première at St Ann's Warehouse, New York, on 14 October, before touring to Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, with more dates to be announced.

New Adventures has announced the return of “Doorstep Duets” with two brand new short pieces for 2022: “Ding Dong” by New Adventures Dance Artist Sophia Hurdley and “High Tide” by New Adventures Dance Artist Daisy May Kemp.

New Adventures congratulates Associate Artistic Director Etta Murfitt on her Member of the British Empire and Group Managing Director Robert Noble on his Order of the British Empire in The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022. Etta Murfitt receives her honour for ‘Services to Dance’ and Robert Noble receives his honour for ‘Services to the Performing Arts’.

Building on the success of Dance Mama Live!, celebrating #IWD2022 and Mother's Day, Dance Mama invites you to catch a glimpse of what it takes for four Dance Mamas to blend their careers with parenthood.

Wise Children today announce that Liam Tamne joins the company as Heathcliff for the world première production of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights on 15 March, completing the run at the National ahead of the UK tour. Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, the show is a co-production with the National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal.

Emma Rice's new version of Wuthering Heights plays in the Lyttelton theatre with performances from Thursday 3 February until Saturday 19 March. A co-production with Wise Children, Bristol Old Vic and York Theatre Royal, this adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic opened at Bristol Old Vic in October 2021 and will embark on a UK wide tour through 2022.

Wise Children today announce the on demand release of its critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, adapted and directed by Emma Rice.

The National Theatre today announces the on-sale dates of upcoming productions Trouble in Mind, Wuthering Heights and Small Island, as well as the return of daytime opening for visitors.