Wuthering Heights (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Wuthering Heights (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Closed 2h 50m NYC: Brooklyn
80% 53 reviews
80%
(53 Ratings)
Positive
85%
Mixed
8%
Negative
7%
Members say
Clever, Absorbing, Entertaining, Ambitious, Great staging

A musical adaptation of the classic novel of the same name.

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Critic Reviews (6)

The New York Times
October 18th, 2022

"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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Theatermania
October 24th, 2022

"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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Lighting & Sound America
October 20th, 2022

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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New York Stage Review
October 18th, 2022

"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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Front Row Center
October 28th, 2022

"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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New York Theater
October 18th, 2022

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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