Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Bryony 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 09:57AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
RashDash are the punk princesses of late-night theatre. As their new show opens, they tell Maddy Costa why they're putting the 'feral' into fairytaleTheir late-night shows at the Edinburgh f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
New theatre show Blurred Lines, provoked by last year's summer pop smash, puts misogyny and rape culture across all the arts in its sights. Director Carrie Cracknell tells Maddy Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSaturday, December 28, 2013
Maddy Costa: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's audacious staging of one woman's life story not only detonated theatrical form – it got to the heart of what is to be aliveMaddy Costa
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, October 10, 2013
Ovalhouse, LondonThere's plenty of room for improvement on this cod-Edwardian schlock-horror farce burdened with cock jokesA year ago, British theatre came under attack from an east-Asian ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Does a performance space have to be built of bricks and mortar, or could it be made from pen and ink? Paper Stages reinvents the form – and function – of a play, writes guest blogger Mad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
The writer behind Matilda the musical and cult TV show Utopia is about to make his Royal Court debut. Not bad for a man who spent his 20s stacking shelves and fighting alcoholismSome people …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
The boss of the big red Shed is quietly redefining what the NT is all about. For his latest trick: an experimental sound piece called The HushBen Power's job can be summed up in a half-sente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMMonday, June 24, 2013
As youth unemployment touches one million, a new outdoor theatre piece focuses on the problem – and the changes required to fix itWhen Nathan Curry says he likes "telling stories with a bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Meltdown, Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBerlin-based artist, rapper and sex educationalist Peaches thrives on confrontation and subversion. On an average night in her company, that involves a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
He wrote one play that offended Syria, and another about mass shootings. So how did David Greig get the job of making Charlie and the Chocolate Factory into a fun-filled feelgood musical?The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Theatre troupe the Team, known for their sharp critiques of America, tell Maddy Costa how a trip to Vegas inspired their musical about capitalism'We kind of love America," says Brian Hastert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Like talking about theatre but not post-show Q&As? Taking a leaf from the popular book club model, there is now a promising alternativeTheatre is a communal activity, and sometimes the best …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:13AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
This New York couple spent days on the phone to an ordinary, everyday girl – to turn her life into a 24-hour drama (with interval hot dogs). Is Norfolk ready for their show?Kristin Worrall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMShe's done Shakespeare on stage and vampires on TV. Now Annabel Scholey is playing a home-wrecking, lingerie-wearing femme fatale. She tells Maddy Costa why 29 is a difficult ageEvery now an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, April 21, 2013
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonWithin 10 minutes of their show beginning, Little Bulb Theatre have narrated in its entirety the melancholy tale of Orpheus, the poet-musician whose song could t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Riverside Studios, LondonSouth African playwright-director Yael Farber has taken the bones of August Strindberg's 1888 play, in which an aristocratic woman has sex with a manservant, and sti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMMonday, February 25, 2013
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 1980s Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The main aim of a new festival in Bristol is to make audiences witness often shockingly sordid encounters. Should other companies take more risks and follow suit?The In Between Time festival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
It spans 300 years, takes in five countries – and needed 10 writers. Maddy Costa on an ambitious attempt to dramatise the culture and belief system of YorubaThere's a party going on. Damon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMSunday, January 20, 2013
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 02:59PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Back to Back's tale of the elephant-headed deity journeying into Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika made for unmissable viewingAn argument is brewing in the rehearsal room. Scott wants Mar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMFriday, November 2, 2012
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 08:45AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Diana 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 02:04PMDiana 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 toughest p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMMonday, September 10, 2012
Cate Blanchett called him 'brutal' and a critic branded him 'my nightmare' – now he's messing with Chekhov. Maddy Costa meets Benedict Andrews, director of Three SistersBenedict Andrews ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Landor, LondonThe first act of Curtains is so delicious, it is a struggle to figure out why it is making its London debut in a cramped room above a south London pub and not in the West End. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMThursday, July 26, 2012
Soho, LondonIt's 10.30pm and nine-year-old Kevin should be fast asleep, not reading. "All this reading," Dad grumbles, "just gives you dreams." The sly precision of that phrase is typical of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
As the bestselling tale of a 15-year-old amateur detective is adapted for the theatre, the team behind it talk about the challenges of adapting a novel about Asperger's syndromeChristopher B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMFriday, July 20, 2012
King's Head, LondonIt's no Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but this 1977 flop by Tennessee Williams rises above its reputation. The Wooster Group brought it to the Edinburgh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue, LondonIf there were a checklist for what comprises great children's theatre, David Wood's adaptation of Judith Kerr's note-perfect picture book would tick a lot of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PM 
