A Broadway director and his actress wife — accused by their landlord of living in such “dirty, unsanitary conditions” that rats, bedbugs and maggots invaded their pad — are fighting back with their own claim.
Matthew Warchus was in town last year to direct “Matilda,” starring his wife, Lauren Ward, when the show’s producers rented them the Upper West Side triplex.
The $15,000-a-month flat “had problems that one would not find tolerable in a college dormitory,” the couple’s Manhattan Supreme Court filing against landlord Shira White said.
White did not respond to a message seeking comment.