Podcast appearances and mentions of fiona gruber

Deep in the dirt are stories that need to be told ... by artists, scientists... and those damn (wonderful) ants.

Care homes and social services come in for a lot of criticism, but imagine a time when there was nothing. The Melbourne Benevolent Asylum changed all of that when it was introduced in 1851.

When it opened in 1910, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was the epitome of elegance and elevated sophistication. Fiona Gruber takes a tour of the faded star in hope of restoration.

It's there if you look...under the sea. But how would we know? Join Science Friction on a journey into the lost heart of Doggerland.

It's there if you look...under the sea. But how would we know? Join Science Friction on a journey into the lost heart of Doggerland.

Come from Away is a new musical that takes audiences to the remote Canadian town of Gander on 11 September, 2001 when the town's population almost doubled, Yamatji and Wongi actor Meyne Wyatt makes his debut as a playwright in City of Gold, a co-production from Queensland Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company, and we visit the Old Fitz Theatre and its resident theatre company Red Line Productions which has a reputation for producing shows that transfer to bigger stages around Australia.

Come from Away is a new musical that takes audiences to the remote Canadian town of Gander on 11 September, 2001 when the town's population almost doubled, Yamatji and Wongi actor Meyne Wyatt makes his debut as a playwright in City of Gold, a co-production from Queensland Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company, and we visit the Old Fitz Theatre and its resident theatre company Red Line Productions which has a reputation for producing shows that transfer to bigger stages around Australia.

Playwright Louis Nowra tells Fiona Gruber about the people who changed his life, and how they came to form the inspiration behind his iconic play Cosí. https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/season-2019/cosi/

Chris Heysen and NGV curator Angela Hesson on important 20th-century Australian painters, father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen, vale Edmund Capon in Arts News, Fiona Gruber visits Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum on the opening of a new public gallery next door, and Bendigo Art Gallery's Tansy Curtin and London's National Portrait Gallery's Charlotte Boland on Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

Chris Heysen and NGV curator Angela Hesson on important 20th-century Australian painters, father and daughter artists Hans and Nora Heysen, vale Edmund Capon in Arts News, Fiona Gruber visits Melbourne's Lyon Housemuseum on the opening of a new public gallery next door, and Bendigo Art Gallery's Tansy Curtin and London's National Portrait Gallery's Charlotte Boland on Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

Chinese art curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Yin Cao describes some of the treasures from Taipei's National Palace Museum on display in the exhibition Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art, Kwementyaye Ngallametta is remembered in arts news with Claire Nichols, US-based artist Cassils explains how they use their body in performance works and sculpture to fight for transgender rights ahead of their exhibition at PICA, and Fiona Gruber reviews Just Not Australian at Artspace in Sydney.

Chinese art curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales Yin Cao describes some of the treasures from Taipei's National Palace Museum on display in the exhibition Heaven and Earth in Chinese Art, Kwementyaye Ngallametta is remembered in arts news with Claire Nichols, US-based artist Cassils explains how they use their body in performance works and sculpture to fight for transgender rights ahead of their exhibition at PICA, and Fiona Gruber reviews Just Not Australian at Artspace in Sydney.

Tate curator Carol Jacobi on the rebellious, colourful and fastidious Pre-Raphaelites ahead of the NGA exhibition Love & Desire, Frida Kahlo's love of photography on show at the Bendigo Art Gallery, we get festive in the studio with Brisbane tinsel artist Rachel Burke, and Fiona Gruber gives us her picks on the 2019 art calendar.

Tate curator Carol Jacobi on the rebellious, colourful and fastidious Pre-Raphaelites ahead of the NGA exhibition Love & Desire, Frida Kahlo's love of photography on show at the Bendigo Art Gallery, we get festive in the studio with Brisbane tinsel artist Rachel Burke, and Fiona Gruber gives us her picks on the 2019 art calendar.

Gabrielle Wang's novel A Ghost in My Suitcase has been adapted for the stage by Barking Gecko Theatre, Opera Queensland reinterpret Mozart's womanising anti-hero in a new production directed by Lindy Hume, Tasdance premiere a new site-specific work at Queenstown's The Unconformity arts festival, and Fiona Gruber reviews Trustees by the Belarus Free Theatre.

South African work of documentary theatre The Fall captures its creators' involvement in a movement to decolonise their institutions, a staged reading of dialogues written by artificial intelligence at the Melbourne Writers Festival asks the question: Is the playwright redundant? Fiona Gruber reviews the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of A Doll's House, Part 2, and Tim Winton's That Eye, The Sky returns to the stage in a new State Theatre Company of South Australia production.

Wiradjuri man Robert Henderson is our studio artist, Australian John Russell's work at the heart of French impressionism at AGNSW, Fiona Gruber on MANIFESTA in Palermo and Edward Bawden in London, State of the Union at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

Wiradjuri man Robert Henderson is our studio artist, Australian John Russell's work at the heart of French impressionism at AGNSW, Fiona Gruber on MANIFESTA in Palermo and Edward Bawden in London, State of the Union at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

We speak to two artists who use two very unusual materials: sculptor Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin who has traded clay for shortcrust pastry, and Leonardo Uribe who makes intricate sculptures from human hair. Fiona Gruber reviews Chinese contemporary art exhibition The Sleeper Awakes, and Andrew Hazewinkel's photographic response to a tragic historical drowning What the Sea Never Told. And we find out what our Clever Kids think of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

We speak to two artists who use two very unusual materials: sculptor Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin who has traded clay for shortcrust pastry, and Leonardo Uribe who makes intricate sculptures from human hair. Fiona Gruber reviews Chinese contemporary art exhibition The Sleeper Awakes, and Andrew Hazewinkel's photographic response to a tragic historical drowning What the Sea Never Told. And we find out what our Clever Kids think of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

British playwright Mike Bartlett chats to Fiona Gruber about his riveting, contemporary thriller — Wild.

Last year, playwright Lucy Kirkwood delivered us a sweeping epic with Chimerica, which looked at China’s economic rise against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This year, her new play, The Children, is equally ambitious in its scope – as it pulls apart the fallout of a nuclear disaster – but it distils the action down into a chamber piece for three actors. In our case, Pamela Rabe, Sarah Peirse and William Zappa. Arts journalist Fiona Gruber travelled to the UK recently and spoke to Lucy Kirkwood about what inspired her to write the play. https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/thechildren The Children, 29 Mar – 19 May 2018, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Seeing the show? Let us know your thoughts. Tag @sydneytheatreco or #sydneytheatreco

Legendary playwright and film maker Mike Leigh speaks to Fiona Gruber about why his tragicomic play, Abigail's Party, remains such a cult classic 40 years on.

British playwright Lucy Kirkwood chats to Fiona Gruber about her new play The Children.

Fiona Gruber chats to Di and Viv and Rose playwright Amelia Bullmore about friendship, luck and the craft of playwriting.

In the first of ACCA's Future Forums for the exhibition Greater Together, philosopher Peter Singer discusses working together for positive change in terms of the environment with special guest Fiona Gruber to facilitate audience discussion. Supported by Media Partner The Saturday Paper. Wednesday 26 July 2017

Since it opened on the London stage in 1982, Noises Off, a farce about performing a farce has been staged in thousands of venues around the world, but it's creator, Michael Frayn, is still bemused by its success. Fiona Gruber speaks to the celebrated playwright about his classic comedy and its enduring appeal.

Comedy duo Francis Greenslade and Shaun Micallef speak to Fiona Gruber about playing the iconic Odd Couple in Neil Simon's classic comedy.

One of Australia's most popular playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith speaks to Fiona Gruber about 'Switzerland' and being inspired by best-selling author Patricia Highsmith.

Fiona Gruber speaks to director Kip Williams about the process of adapting Strindberg's treatment of class, lust and power in 'Miss Julie'.

'The Distance' playwright, Deborah Bruce, speaks to Fiona Gruber about morality and motherhood.

Fiona Gruber speaks to theatre critic and Harold Pinter biographer, Michael Billington, about Pinter, his writing and his affair with TV presenter Joan Bakewell on which his play, Betrayal is based.

Fiona Gruber speaks to Simon Stephens about his play, Birdland.

Fiona Gruber speaks to Australian playwright Kylie Trounson about the process of writing 'The Waiting Room'; a story based around the groundbreaking IVF research performed by her father, Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson.

Fiona Gruber speaks to Beckett expert Dr Mark Byron from the University of Sydney about the influences and ideas behind Beckett's work, including the 20th century masterpiece Endgame. Image: Samuel Beckett in 1977, photographed by Roger Pic, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Fiona Gruber speaks to award-winning actor Miriam Margolyes about her role as Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers in MTC's production of I'll Eat You Last by John Logan.

Fiona Gruber interviews German writer and director Falk Richter, and Chunky Move Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk about their latest collaboration, Complexity of Belonging.

Fiona Gruber explores MTC's 2015 Season with MTC Artistic Director Brett Sheehy, comedy writer Steve Vizard and director Sam Strong.

Fiona Gruber explores MTC's 2015 Season with MTC Artistic Director Brett Sheehy, actor Jane Turner, writer Aidan Fennessy, and Director Sam Strong.

Fiona Gruber speaks to Sam Strong, director of Brendan Cowell's provocative new play 'The Sublime', about the murky world of football codes, celebrity and scandal. For more information, visit: www.mtc.com.au/sublime

Fiona Gruber speaks to Lucy Prebble, playwright of 'The Effect', and star of the Melbourne production, Sigrid Thornton about the play, love, depression and drug trials. For more information, visit: www.mtc.com.au/effect

In the lead-up to our production of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' starring Alex Dimitriades (pictured), Fiona Gruber spoke to renowned British theatre critic Michael Coveney about David Mamet's classic play; the jazz-like rhythms of the dialogue, the themes of capitalism and male competitiveness, and the influence of this play on modern playwrights.

Fiona Gruber discusses the enduring thematic relevance of Ibsen’s work with Denise Varney, Associate Professor in Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and co-director of the Australian Centre.

Fiona Gruber talks with Noël Coward's biographer Philip Hoare about the work and life of 'The Master' and the very private life that created Private Lives.

Fiona Gruber speaks to actor and writer Matthew Whittet, and MTC Education Manager Noel Jordan about the importance of creating theatre for young people.

Fiona Gruber interviews renowned Australian playwright David Williamson and learns more about his new play, Rupert.

Fiona Gruber interviews playwright Eddie Perfect about his new deliciously wicked new satire, 'The Beast'.