139 stories by "Maddy Costa"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 A…
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…
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…
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…
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 toughest …
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 toughest p…
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 can …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Scoop, LondonAlmost everything about this dramatisation of the Trojan war is true to the spirit of ancient Greece: the uncomfortable seats, the imposing surroundings, the splicing of burlesq…
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…
Once home to nothing more innovative than A Midsummer Night's Dream, Regent's Park theatre is not only producing some of London's best musicals " it's beating the West End at its own gameAlt…
The writer and star of the groundbreaking show on the drag queen no one could resistHarvey Fierstein, playwrightAs soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonGrupo Galpão's rough-and-tumble production of Romeo and Juliet has been at the Globe before, 12 years ago, and you can see why the Brazilians were invited back.…
The play has split critics. But between rankled newspaper reviewers or enthusiastic bloggers, who is right?There are plays that divide critics, and then there is Three Kingdoms. Depending on…
Will the Smiths singer come to her Unhappy Birthday? Maddy Costa meets the woman who has turned her Smiths obsession into a play'Being a Morrissey fan is not the easiest thing in the world,"…
Shakespeare lived in a man's world " but the RSC is recasting his 'battle play' King John with women in the thick of the actionLike many 21st-century women, theatre director Maria Aberg does…
'The rehearsals were hysterical. Sometimes they just fell apart because it was so funny'Alan Ayckbourn, directorMy play Absurd Person Singular, now 40 years old, was a step in the direction …
