Mare Winningham and Madeline Brewer lead the newly completed New York company of Wild Rose, the Glasgow country-music musical that began at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre and crosses the Atlantic with John Tiffany and a largely British creative team.
Mare Winningham, a Tony nominee for Girl From the North Country, and Madeline Brewer, Emmy-nominated for The Handmaid's Tale, head the full cast now confirmed for Wild Rose at New York Theatre Workshop. The musical had its world premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 2025, and this off-Broadway staging is its US premiere: previews begin on Tuesday 24 November 2026, opening night is Monday 14 December, and the limited season ends on Sunday 10 January 2027.
Joining them are Danny Burgos, Joe Carroll, Barrett Doss, Annabelle Duffy, Reed Epley, Jackson Parker Gill, Haley Gustafson, Ciara Alyse Harris, Timea Kenny-Koncz, Jaye Ladymore, Ada Manie, Linda Mugleston, Bri Sudia and Emily Grace Schultheis, who comes to the company from the US tour of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The latest names are the four swings: Julia Estrada, Tess Marshall, Megan Ort and Sergio Pasquariello.
For London audiences, the interest lies behind the footlights, because the people making the show are overwhelmingly from this side of the Atlantic. Nicole Taylor, the BAFTA winner who wrote the original 2018 film as well as the Netflix series One Day, has written the stage version, which marks her New York theatre debut. John Tiffany, the Tony and Olivier Award-winning director of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Once, directs, with choreography by Olivier winner Steven Hoggett and Vicki Manderson (The Outrun). Tony winner Sarah Travis (Sweeney Todd) shares music supervision with Nadia DiGiallonardo (Waitress), and Travis also handles orchestrations and arrangements alongside Davey Anderson.
The design team is just as familiar from West End programmes. Chloe Lamford designs the set, Katrina Lindsay the costumes, Jessica Hung Han Yun, an Olivier winner for My Neighbour Totoro, the lighting, and Tony Gayle (Two Strangers) the sound, with hair, wigs and make-up by Mary Lee. Liz Hayes is dialect coach, Liz Caplan supervises the vocals and Rebekah Bruce is music director. Casting is by Jim Carnahan and Alexandre Bleau.
The production is presented by special arrangement with Patrick Daly, Gavin Kalin Productions, Barbara Broccoli, Brandi Carlile and Catherine Carlile. Faye Ward, who produced the film for Fable Pictures, is an executive producer on the stage adaptation.
Taylor's story follows Rose-Lynn, newly released from prison in Glasgow, who has a gift for country music and her heart set on Nashville. Her mother, Marion, wants her to give up the dream and look after her two children instead, but a cleaning job brings her an unexpected ally in her employer, Susannah, and the road out of Scotland starts to look real. The score mixes the film's original song Glasgow (No Place Like Home) with numbers by Brandi Carlile, Wynonna Judd, The Chicks, Patty Griffin and Caitlyn Smith, among others.
Alongside the run, New York Theatre Workshop has lined up a For The Culture series of talkbacks and community events through December and into January, including a post-show conversation with the playwright, director and members of the creative team on Wednesday 9 December. Tickets in New York start at $59.
The New York season comes with no London dates attached, so there is nothing to book in London yet. Earlier casting for the New York run was covered by News From Broadway.
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