Reviews

Ms. Costigan hides Hannah’s delusional nature beneath a pleasant mask of warmth and gentility New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/nyregion/the-seedbed-a-drama-by-bryan-delany-at-new-jersey-repertory-company.html

Gina Costigan is a compelling yet complex Grace, Frank’s wife. As with Frank, we are never sure how much of what she shares is real, and it is huge credit to Costigan that the audience are left unsure if her character is full of deceit, confusion or a mental affliction as she outlines the events from her perspective. This role demands that the audience are left with questions, and Costigan delivers that with subtlety and an impactful presence on stage https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/faith-healer-theatr-clwyd-t-22445#:~:text=Gina%20Costigan%20is%20a%20compelling,the%20events%20from%20her%20perspective.

Costigan projects the aching sense of under achievement so common in Chekhov’s characters and indeed in Friel’s own Afterplay, his imagined conclusion to Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters. There is no distance whatsoever between actor and her lines in Costigan’s wonderful performance. My heart leapt out to Grace as Costigan skilfully dismantled the character’s natural reticence and allowed us to share restricted memories such as walking in the Grampian Mountains https://playsinternational.org.uk/faith-healer-at-the-devonshire-park-theatre-eastbourne/

Costigan delivers a steadfast, emotional, and believable performance. https://www.thesussexnewspaper.com/review-faith-healer-devonshire-park-theatre-eastbourne/

Acting of the highest quality from Paul Carroll as Frank, Gina Costigan as Grace, and Jonathan Ashley as Teddy, means all three characters are wonderfully and charismatically realised. https://stagetalkmagazine.com/p/30915

Gina Costigan and Johnathan Ashley also gave moving performances, even when doing something as simple as sitting in silence on the stage. https://www.varsity.co.uk/theatre/26409

All three give strong performances, given that all eyes are exclusively on each of them as they deliver their monologue, and they are following the likes of Ken Stott, Geraldine James, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Sheen and David Threlfall who have all acted in the play. https://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/whats-on/faith-healer/

Gina Costigan and Jonathan Ashley give equally powerful performances. https://fairypoweredproductions.com/faith-healer-review/

In a play distinguished, not least, by its strong female characters (including Helena Bereen’s entertaining busybody, Mrs Tymelly) it is Gina Costigan’s Loretta who particularly shines - The Arts Desk https://theartsdesk.com/theatre/mcquillans-hill-finborough-theatre-review-timely-glance-northern-irish-myths-and-tensions

The stand-out moment for me, however, was a small scene between the Sister and the Daughter, where Loretta Maline describes her crushing post-natal depression and the trauma of giving up her baby. It is exquisitely written, exquisitely played by Gina Costigan (Loretta) and Julie Maguire. Gina Costigan turning in five minutes of magic. Three stars for the whole thing, four stars for Gina Costigan's acting tour-de-force. London Pub Theatre https://www.londonpubtheatres.com/review-on-mcquillans-hill-at-finborough-theatre-4-29-february-2020

Loretta, played by Gina Costigan with an anger that conceals her heartache, is back after two decades’ absence, wanting to build bridges. The Stage https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2020/on-mcquillans-hill-review-at-finborough-theatre-london-burns-with-authenticity/

Gina Costigan shone in the pivotal role of Caitlin Carney. She’s central to both the gangster tale and the love story in this play. The Irish Echo https://www.irishecho.com/2019/02/the-ferryman-engages-entertains/

Not only does Gina Costigan winningly play the daffy Dolly, she also plays Masher in 1966. Ms. Costigan offers a fierce portrait of a battered yet resourceful woman of that era. Scantily clad at times and trying on the pairs of gaudy shoes that she’s addicted to, Costigan is totally convincing as a sexually predatory, for-profit go-go dancer. Her alluring sensuality combined with her maternal sensibilities all makes her characterization outstanding. Theater Scene http://www.theaterscene.net/plays/crackskull-row/darryl-reilly/

Costigan manages to be strangely attractive as the corrupted amoral Dolly. Curtain Up http://www.curtainup.com/crackskullrow17.html

there is enough depth in the historical material and the performances of Gina Costigan as Eva and Jill Mongey as Esther to keep an audience engaged The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/reviews-1.924236https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/reviews-1.924236

Gina Costigan portrays Dolly (1966) and Wee Dolly (1999) with specificity and exacting hardness in the time before the trauma savaged her identity into the fragments we see years later as Masher. Costigan, well shepherded by Simring and the script, intimates the handprints of the future, the characteristics which will lead to the damning of Dolly’s soul in her defiant, reckless wantonness and inability to control her own destiny and desires.Yet in Dolly and in Costigan’s portrayal, the playwright, actor and director have crafted a young woman with whom we may identify, for Dolly is a survivalist. Blog Critics https://blogcritics.org/theater-review-nyc-crackskull-row-at-the-irish-repertory-theatre/

a very fiery Gina Costigan does a great job playing the younger Masher Front Mezz Junkies https://frontmezzjunkies.com/2017/03/03/crackskull-row/

There is much to admire about the production, including some fine performances from John Charles McLaughlin, who plays a young, on-edge, perversely romantic Rasher, and Gina Costigan, whose Dolly is a complex, willful thing. The chemistry between McLaughlin and Costigan is palpable; it's not for nothing that the Masher-Rasher relationship is central to the play. But it is Costigan who bears much of Molloy's light-hearted darkness from the page to the stage; she plays Dolly with riveting, minimalist understanding. Off Off Online https://www.offoffonline.com/offoffonline/26162?rq=crackskull%20

the young Dolly (played with the despair of unwitting decadence by Gina Costigan) Theatre Reviews http://www.theatrereviews.com/off-broadway-review-crackskull-row-at-irish-rep-theatre-in-the-w-scott-mclucas-studio-theatre/

As Dolly, the hopeful daughter who tries to escape the shadows that are devouring her family, Gina Costigan is first defiant, then destroyed by forces she can neither contend with nor control Irish Central https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/1st-batch-of-irish-plays-are-nothing-if-not-provocative

Wee Dolly (an alluring and mischievous Gina Costigan) Theater Mania http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/reviews/crackskull-row_78432.html?cid=rssfeed-reviews

Costigan and McLaughlin do quality work as the younger characters. Theatre's Leiter Side http://slleiter.blogspot.com/2016/09/59-review-crackskull-row-seen-september.html

the younger pair was made to speak this stuff. Time Out https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/theater-review-crackskull-row-at-the-workshop-theater-090616

The performers, directed by Kira Simring (the Cell’s artistic director), are uniformly on point New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/theater/review-crackskull-row-an-irish-gothic-with-masher-basher-and-rasher.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Theater&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article

Gina Costigan a clear stand-out as matriarch Hannah. Costigan conveys a warmth and focus that makes her imminently watchable in every moment. New Jersey Footlights http://www.njfootlights.net/2015/10/review-seedbed-at-new-jersey-repertory.html

She's torn between her husband and her daughter, and Costigan plays that quandary very well Scene on Stage - sceneonstage.com http://sceneonstage.com/2015/10/what-happens-in-the-seedbed-stays-in-the-seedbed/

Powerful performances from Kevin Hogan as Thomas, the step-father; Gina Costigan as Hannah, the mother; Michael Lewis Serafin-Wells as Mick, the fiance; and last but in no way least, Cathryn Wake as Maggie, the daughter The Front Row Center http://thefrontrowcenter.com/2015/10/the-seedbed/

One can see the complaisant but apprehensive Hannah's hidden agenda in Costigan's subtle performance Curtain Up http://www.curtainup.com/seedbednj15.html

Saving graces are provided by Gina Costigan as the love object, Grace, and the Countess, and Jill Mongey as Nan and Eva Gore-Booth. Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/incoming/selfindulgent-turgid-rubbish-beggars-belief-26447066.html

Gina Costigan as Mollie Mae is a vision to behold. You want to be Mollie’s friend. To hang out with her in the best of times and the worst. The Front Row Center http://thefrontrowcenter.com/2018/02/party-face/

Costigan and Mills’s winsome portrayals allow us to forgive Carmel and empathize with Mollie Blogcritics https://blogcritics.org/theater-review-nyc-party-face-starring-hayley-mills/

Gina Costigan is quietly sympathetic as the self-effacing Mollie Mae, who seems to be hiding in her drab comfy clothes, struggling with whether she even wants to bring herself forward in a room full of strong personalities, even if doing so may be her salvation. StageBuddy https://stagebuddy.com/theater/theater-review/review-party-face

a fine Gina Costigan Theater Pizzazz http://theaterpizzazz.com/party-face/

Costigan’s excellent performance is the layered heart of the play. She is, she lets us know, a stranger not only in this newly renovated home, but also a stranger in her own life. The collapse of her marriage has left her feeling shorn of identity. That is both terrifying and liberating for her, and Costigan expresses the bluntness, fear, and resistance to falling apart that Mahon gives her character. The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/hayley-mills-sets-a-new-parent-trap-review-of-party-face

Costigan is believable as the subdued Mollie Mae, a woman trying to rebuild her life with as little fuss as possible; The Epoch Times https://www.theepochtimes.com/theater-review-party-face_2426000.html

Costigan (The Suitcase under the Bed, Crackskull Row), Meaney (Indian Ink, Incognito), and Cimmet (Amelie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood) are all solid This Week In New York http://twi-ny.com/blog/2018/02/11/party-face/

Gina Costigan underplays deftly as Mollie, serving as straight woman to Carmel Lighting & Sound America http://www.lightingandsoundamerica.com/news/story.asp?ID=-KLWXN6

Mollie Mae, played with appropriate glumness by Gina Costigan, isn’t quite in a party mood. TheaterScene http://theaterscene.com/Party-Face-review.html

Gina Costigan, as Mrs. Stims, shines the brightest. Given only eight lines, her harshness and self-loathing are fully realized The Front Row Center http://thefrontrowcenter.com/2017/08/the-suitcase-under-the-bed/

Costigan, for her part, makes quite a transformation from a bitter, dowdy loner in "Strange Birth" to a self-possessed, perfectly-done-up wife in "Holiday House." Talkin Broadway https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/8_24_17.html

Gina Costigan – Loretta Maline is forced to re-address her past and is fighting for a reunion with her daughter and as her personal history unravels, the audience must be impressed by the emotional power of her performance The Saturn Herald http://thesaturnherald.com/a-play-which-makes-most-peoples-complex-lives-by-comparison-seem-mundane/

She is portrayed by Gina Costigan, well able to hold her own in encounters with the powerful men in this play. London Theatre1 https://www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/play/on-mcquillans-hill-at-finborough-theatre-review/

Gina Costigan as Loretta Maline and Kevin Murphy as Dessie Rigg are both touching and totally credible as those who have made cruel compromises to survive in the circumstances they have been born into. London Living Large http://www.londonlivinglarge.com/2020/02/on-mcquillans-hill-finborough-theatre.html

Gina Costigan and Julie Maguire are touching as the angry and abused Maline women.

It has been directed with the necessary speed by Jonathan Harden and is very strongly cast. Reviews Gate https://reviewsgate.com/on-mcquillans-hill-by-joseph-crilly-the-finborough-theatre-118-finborough-road-london-sw10-to-29-february-2020-4-william-russell/

The ensemble cast of six actors (Gina Costigan, Sarah Nicole Deaver, Cynthia Mace, Aidan Redmond, Colin Ryan, A.J. Shively) earnestly cover the gamut, excelling in character differentiation Theater Pizzazz http://theaterpizzazz.com/the-suitcase-under-the-bed/

As played by Costigan and Adair, their mutual antipathy is palpable, making the atmosphere thick with tension. Theater Mania http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/reviews/the-suitcase-under-the-bed_82156.html

Gina Costigan, Cynthia Mace, Colin Ryan, and A.J. Shively—play all the roles, with many appearing in all four plays, and they do an excellent job of distinguishing between characters Theatre Is Easy http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/2017/S/thesuitcaseunderthebed.php

Well directed by Jonathan Bank with a stellar cast that consists of Ellen Adair, Gina Costigan, Sarah Nicole Deaver, Cynthia Mace, Aidan Redmond, Colin Ryan and A.J. Shively, Time Square Chronicles http://t2conline.com/the-suitcase-under-the-bed-shows-love-in-many-formats/

Gina Costigan has just a teensy part as another boarder, but she gets her chance to shine in the second act's Holiday House. Curtain Up http://www.curtainup.com/suitcaseunderthebed17.html

Especially fine are, well, everybody (I started a list but realized it included every name): Cynthia Mace, Ellen Adair, Sarah Nicole Deaver, and Aidan Redmond, A.J. Shively, Colin Ryan, and Gina Costigan. Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-arts/Suitcase-Under-the-Bed-Four-pitch-perfect-plays-full-of-humanity.html