Monday, February 6, 2017
Busty Beatz, MD of Hot Brown Honey, is on residency at Wellcome Collection as part of The Sick Of The Fringe. She talks to Maddy Costa about making the personal political, and confronting We…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:35AMSaturday, December 24, 2016
He is one of Britain's most revered actors, the winner of three Oliviers and hailed as the new John Gielgud. So why does Alex Jennings seem so unsatisfied? By Maddy CostaGarry Essendine is o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMSunday, December 11, 2016
Former EastEnders actor Arinze Kene is fast becoming one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights. He tells Maddy Costa why he has turned his gaze on the riots that rocked the 1980sWhen …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Kneehigh is one of Britain's most exciting theatre companies. How do they do it? Maddy Costa finds out at their secret hideaway in CornwallAt the top of a cliff on the south coast of Cornwal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMThursday, June 23, 2016
The writer and star of the groundbreaking show on the drag queen no one could resistAs soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows – maybe they though…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08AMThursday, June 2, 2016
He has done everything from Tomb Raider to appearing nude with Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room. Now Iain Glen has graduated to directing. And it's very hard workLeading actors do not often ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMSunday, May 22, 2016
An exercise in misogyny – or a love story about a man liberating a woman? As the RSC stages The Taming of the Shrew, Maddy Costa asks actors and directors how they read the playA man acqui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32PMDiana Rigg played a memorable Medea – now her daughter Rachael Stirling is taking it on. She talks to Maddy Costa, while other actors recall their own immersion in one of theatre's toughes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMFriday, May 13, 2016
With its swearing and its baby-stoning, Saved shocked Britain in 1965. Will the play do so again? Maddy Costa talks to the original cast – and asks Edward Bond why he finally allowed a rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMSunday, April 24, 2016
Nick Payne might only be 28, but he's already dazzled audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. As his hit play Constellations transfers to the West End, he talks to Maddy Costa about science…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, February 5, 2016
What's it like to play Shakespeare's most controversial character? As a new RSC production opens, Patrick Stewart, Antony Sher and other former Shylocks reveal allPatrick Stewart Bristol Old…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMFriday, October 30, 2015
He is one of Britain's most revered actors, the winner of three Oliviers and hailed as the new John Gielgud. So why does Alex Jennings seem so unsatisfied? By Maddy CostaGarry Essendine is o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDirector Thom Southerland has a long history with Mack and Mabel: he worked on it first in 2005, as an assistant on a stripped-back production in Newbury that tran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes emotionally charged dramas about marginalised women. She tells Maddy Costa how adapting The Turn of the Screw brought back haunting memories of her ownOn a grey afte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:46AMMonday, May 25, 2015
The Wizard of Oz musical is about to open in London. Why is its director so worried about the audience throwing shoes?
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
‘Relaxed’ performances, aimed at people with disabilities and their carers, are few and far between – but they have benefits for all of us. The whole point of theatre is that disruptio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Through discussions, performance and a shared lunch, the Dialogue festival invites audiences to see the value of art in new ways. Guest blogger Maddy Costa explains Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Garrick, LondonThe past masters feel a bit hemmed in on stage, but there's still serious satirical comment on contemporary events behind their barrage of historical fun Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
New London theatre, LondonIt's 15 minutes before there is an Elephantom in the room but the party animals are worth the wait in this fast-paced show"When is the elephant going to come?&…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMThursday, May 29, 2014
(This post is part of the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich.) You saw the show – the one with the rave reviews and …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:17AMWednesday, March 19, 2014
National Theatre, LondonMichaela Coel's firecracker of a monologue is an exploration of friendship, sex, race and faltering self-belief In a famous scene from Lena Dunham's TV show Girls, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Camden People's theatre, LondonKindle's double bill fuses theatre and music: Lady GoGo Goch transforms Welsh heritage with a loop pedal, while A Journey Around My Skull evokes every slice of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonMadness looks confusing – and a lot like ordinary life – in this dramatic argument for a new way to treat mental illnessEarlier this year, Jon Haynes, co-arti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMSunday, March 16, 2014
Soho theatre, LondonSharmila Chauhan's interrogation of an Indian feminist utopia wears the issues a bit too much on its sleeveAya, the wife at the heart of Sharmila Chauhan's knotty new pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMThursday, March 13, 2014
The Shed at the National Theatre, LondonAn inexorable rush of thought and idea, full of mystery and marvel – much like the great text that inspired itOlwen Fouéré's microphone stand is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Gate theatre, LondonSteffan Rhodri delivers Rodrigo García's argument for the soothing power of high art with crackling energyAt 14, the unnamed protagonist of this acidic Spanish short pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Birmingham RepAn anarchic children's TV show is remembered by a trauma survivor 35 years later in Told by An Idiot's new show, but the energy is in the lovingly recreated custard-pies-and-al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMThursday, March 6, 2014
Stratford Circus, LondonIn this Fingersmiths production of Bryony Lavery's play, characters appear in duplicate – one using speech, the other signing – to tell the story of child abducti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Kate O'Flynn has become a powerful stage presence with her line in outspoken northerners. The actor talks to Maddy Costa about going to extremesEarly in 2013, Kate O'Flynn hit the Lyttelton …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
When artists approach the Israel-Palestine issue, it's not usually with dance troupes and drag queens. But that's just what Israeli-born Nir Paldi's controversial new show doesCertain art fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMBryony Kimmings and her niece Taylor have invented a pop star for the 21st century – and inspired my children to change the worldWhen theatre comes with a stipulated age range, I'm a firm …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AM 
