Podcasts about indhu rubasingham

Newly appointed National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham becomes the first woman and person of colour to lead the theatre in it's 60 year history. She sat down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss art, diversity and censorship and taking on her 'dream job.'  Produced by Holly Snelling and Vik Patel.

Sarah Crompton and Alex Wood head to the National Theatre to hear the venue's new director Indhu Rubasingham unveil her bumper season of productions, mapping out plans right the way through to 2027. With huge star names like Paul Mescal, Nicola Coughlan, Lesley Manville and Letitia Wright slated for appearances, there's plenty for audiences to get excited about. But more than that – what does Rubasingham's approach and character mean for the future of the NT? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our first question and answer episode, Sarah and Alex answer your queries. What does break a leg mean? Are there any good shows featuring puppets coming up? Will the National Theatre change when Indhu Rubasingham takes over? And much more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ARCHIVE EDITION: INDHU RUBASINGHAM. When Indhu Rubasingham spoke to Theatre Voice in 2013 she was just coming to the end of her first year as artistic director of what was then called the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London. Ten years on, the Tricycle has undergone a huge refurbishment, is now called the Kiln, and is […]

Nancy and Sarah hail the appointment of Indhu Rubasingham as artistic director of the National Theatre. And talk about Rock N Roll, which Nancy is performing at Hampstead Theatre, and Cold War, which Sarah has just seen at the Almeida, and why love, music and the cold war are a potent mix. Plus some surprising heckling and how Nancy coped. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shakira Simpson (Six Tour / Legally Blonde) co-hosts The West End Frame Show!Andrew and Shakira discuss My Favourite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) as well as the latest news about Paddington The Musical, Opening Night, Indhu Rubasingham, Samantha Barks, the TodayTix shop and lots more. Shakira worked as a child, playing Young Nala in The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) and Margaret in Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre). After training at Urdang, Shakira made her adult debut as a swing in the West End revival of Hairspray (London Coliseum). Her theatre credits also include swing and dance captain in the original cast of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World (UK Tour), swing in Legally Blonde (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre) and Baby Bear in Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Mayflower Southampton). Shakira is currently the super swing and dance captain in the UK & Ireland tour of Six The Musical and has already played all six queens. Follow Shakira on Instagram: @s.simpsson For Six tour dates and tickets, visit www.sixthemusical.com.Hosted by Andrew Tomlins. @AndrewTomlins32  Thanks for listening! Email: andrew@westendframe.co.uk Visit westendframe.co.uk for more info about our podcasts.    

This episode discusses themes some listeners may find distressing.Jared Harris (Mad Men, Chernobyl) and Joe Cole (Gangs of London, Peaky Blinders), join us at the Young Vic to talk about their time in Harold Panter's The Homecoming, directed by Matthew Dunster.For our reviews this week it's Ulster American at Riverside Studios, by David Ireland and directed by Jeremy Herrin, starring Woody Harrelson, Louisa Harland and Andy Serkis. Plus for our second review, Cold War at the Almeida theatre, adapted by Conor McPherson from Pawel Pawlikowski's award-winning 2018 film, starring Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon.We also discuss Indhu Rubasingham being appointed as Director of the National Theatre, the unveiling of a very special plaque honouring Operation Mincemeat's Hester, and Paddington the musical which comes to the West End in 2025.Get in touch with us at theatrepod@standard.co.ukFor all the latest news head to standard.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cult documentaries and docuseries sure seem to be having a moment right now. (On the other hand.) This isn't the sort of material The Nose usually gets into. But, and partly inspired by Cat's Corner in the current edition of The Noseletter, we decided to give three popular new shows a look: Escaping Twin Flames is a three-part Netflix docuseries that looks at the controversial online community Twin Flames Universe. The Garden: Commune or Cult is a six-part Discovery Channel docuseries about the off-the-grid community The Garden. And Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God is a three-part HBO docuseries that looks at the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as Mother God. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: André Braugher Dies: Star Of ‘Homicide: Life On The Street', ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine' & Other Series And Films Was 61 Golden Globe Nominations: ‘Barbie', ‘Oppenheimer' Top Movie List; ‘Succession' Leads Way In TV The Year Twitter Died Nicolas Cage Says He's Almost Finished: “Three or Four More Movies Left” The famously prolific 59-year-old actor says he's eyeing a Hollywood endgame: “I've said what I've had to say with cinema.” ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm' Officially Ending With Season 12 at HBO “I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David' persona and become the person God intended me to be,” David says of ending his HBO comedy. The New Yorker Drops Andy Borowitz's Satire Column Amid Cutbacks How ‘Mr. Brightside' Became a Generation's Anthem Overlooked at its release, the Killers' signature hit has become one of the most inescapable rock songs of its time. A 25-Year-Old X-Files Mystery Was Solved on Twitter in Less Than 24 Hours 24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023 Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn't stop thinking about this year. The Most Egregious Example of “We Didn't Use CGI” Mythology (So Far) Strapped, stressed, axed: is it curtains for theatre's artistic directors? Indhu Rubasingham has been named as the National's new head. But elsewhere, theatres are ditching this once coveted role altogether. Can a theatre really manage without one? GUESTS: Sam Hatch: Co-hosts The Culture Dogs on Sunday nights on WWUH Jacques Lamarre: A playwright and chief communications officer at Buzz Engine Carolyn Paine: An actress, comedian, and dancer; she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance Cat Pastor: Assistant radio operations manager at Connecticut Public The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bradley Cooper directs and stars in the new film Maestro about the hugely influential American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein alongside Carey Mulligan as his wife, the actor Felicia Montealegre. Nick Ahad speaks to both of them about portraying a ‘marriage through music' and how Cooper spent six years preparing to conduct Mahler's Resurrection with the London Symphony Orchestra.Fifty years after his death, for many the playwright and composer Noel Coward is very much a figure of the British establishment. However as a new production of his most famous work, Brief Encounter, opens at Manchester's Royal Exchange, Front Row brought together its musical director Matthew Malone and Sarah K Whitfield, co-author of An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900 – 1950, to discuss how Coward's songs reveal a more radical side of his artistry.Kirsty Lang reports on the Wien Museum, the Viennese institution which has just re-opened and for the first time includes an acknowledgement of the city's Nazi past. Critic Kate Maltby reflects on the news that Indhu Rubasingham has been appointed the next director of the National Theatre. She will be the first female and the first person of colour to lead the theatre. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Tonight is opening night of the New York premiere of author Zadie Smith's debut play, "The Wife of Willesden." The play is a modern adaptation of an excerpt of one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Tale. After a debut run in London in 2021, the play comes to BAM, directed by Indhu Rubasingham and starring Clare Perkins as Alvita, a middle-aged Jamaican woman living in England who decides to tell her life story to a group of strangers in a North West London pub. "The Wife of Willesden" is showing at BAM's Harvey Theater until April 16.

How are the performing arts faring more than eighteen months into the COIVID 19 pandemic? The Cultural Frontline brings together four global theatre directors to discuss the impact on their industry. Having embraced digital innovation whilst their doors have been shut, we hear how it feels to be performing live again, and how the plays being staged reflect the unprecedented times artists around the world have been living through. Joining Chi Chi Izundu to discuss the state of theatre now are Rwandan theatre director and curator of the Ubumuntu International Arts festival, Hope Azeda, Indian playwright, theatre director and lecturer Abhishek Majumdar, the artistic director of the Kiln theatre in London, Indhu Rubasingham and General Director of the Municipal Theatre in Santiago Chile, Carmen Larenas. Producer: Lucy Collingwood (Photo: Audiences return to live performance. Credit: Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto/Getty)

Indhu Rubasingham, Artistic Director of The Kiln in Kilburn, tells us how she and her team transformed the theatre into an award-winning community hub and runner and anthropologist Michael Crawley explains how a strong sense of community is also integral to the supremacy of Ethiopia's top runner. Follow Country & Town House on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram Visit our website and subscribe to the newsletter here. And don't forget to leave a review, rate and subscribe to this podcast to be the first to hear our weekly episodes! Edited and Produced by Alex Graham We're supporting The Kiln in every way we can: We're watching Dear Future Generations, an original film written and performed by The Kiln's 16-18 Young Company We're reading: Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia by Michael Crawley We're reading Great British Brands What Next? 2021 Edition and finding out who won the first ever Great British Brands Awards

This week, as part of a series of special programmes, we look to the future of the performing arts. As many theatres around the world remain dark, closed to audiences for months and with a largely freelance community of actors, writers, directors, musicians and production crews unable to work, we talk to four global theatre makers about the impact of the pandemic on performing arts communities. We ask what's next for theatre. Is the outlook bleak or is there cause for hope from the creativity and invention shown in lockdown? What does the future of stage performance hold? Tina Daheley is joined by Rwandan theatre director and curator of the Ubumuntu International Arts festival, Hope Azeda, Chilean playwright and theatre director Guillermo Calderon, Indian playwright, theatre director and lecturer Abhishek Majumdar and the artistic director of the Kiln theatre in London, Indhu Rubasingham. Presented by Tina Daheley (Photo: The empty auditorium of the London Coliseum. Credit: Richard Baker/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Are the arts facing an existential crisis in the UK? Sir Simon Rattle, conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, on the imminent threat to orchestras and other arts organisations unless the government provides signficant financial support. The state of UK Theatre is discussed by Royal Shakespeare Company Executive Director, Catherine Mallyon, Actors’ Touring Company Artistic Director Matthew Xia, and Indhu Rubasingham, Artistic Director of London's Kiln Theatre. Today the National Gallery announced they will be the first major museum to reopen next week. John is joined by the Director of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi and Jenny Waldman, Director of the Art Fund to explore the situation facing galleries and museums. John is also joined by Guardian Chief Culture Writer Charlotte Higgins. Presenter: John Wilson Producers: Ekene Akalawu and Timothy Prosser Main image: Sir Simon Rattle Image credit: Mark Allan

We look ahead to the Women's Football World Cup in France with former England, Chelsea and West Ham player Claire Rafferty, BBC Women's Sports reporter Jo Currie and Gemma Clarke author of Soccer Women: the Icons, Rebels, Starts and Trailblazers Who Transformed the Beautiful Game.The author Elif Shafak tells us about her latest novel 10 minutes 38 seconds In This Strange World.The Violinist Nicola Bennedetti talks about her new album a collaboration with the jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.The writer and journalist Francesca Segal tells us about her identical twin daughters born prematurely at 30 weeks and how her expectations of motherhood were shattered by their early arrival.As part of coaching week talk to Louisa Arnold and Kim Johnson about Project 500, a scheme to inspire and support women to become sports coaches.We hear about a new play Wife which explores the meaning of the word wife over 90 years with the director Indhu Rubasingham and Dr Rebecca Jennings lecturer in modern gender history at UCL.As we mark D Day this week we hear from Chelsea Pensioner Helen Andrews one of thousands of women who volunteered for the British Army at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Eleanor Garland

After her identical twin girls were born prematurely at 30 weeks, writer and journalist Francesca Segal found herself sitting in what she called the “mother ship” of neonatal intensive care, all her expectations of parenthood shattered. She speaks to Jenni about the diary she kept and about the band of mothers who joined her in the Mother Ship – which is the title of her memoir of the 56 days spent with her daughters in hospital. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, new play Wife focuses on a married woman facing a sexual identity crisis in 1959 in order to explore what we have meant by the word ‘wife' over 90 years. Set in 1959, 1988, 2019 and 2042 the play follows four queer stories within four generations of one family and it highlights the changes within the institution of marriage. Jenni talks to director Indhu Rubasingham and historian Dr Rebecca Jennings.This year's Love Island producers have introduced changes to make the hit TV programme more inclusive, and Monday's launch revealed the new line-up. Do the changes go far enough? Jenni is joined by journalist Habiba Katsha, and by make-up artist Frances Shillito. Today is the start of a judicial review into women's pensions. A group called BACK TO 60 is behind the court action. They want women's state pensions to start at 60, as it did until 2010. It's been rising ever since and is set to go up to 67 by 2028. Jenni talks to Davina Lloyd.Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Laura Northedge Interviewed Guest: Francesca Segal Interviewed Guest: Indhu Rubasingham Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Jennings Interviewed Guest: Habiba Katsha Interviewed Guest: Frances Shillito Interviewed Guest: Davina Lloyd

Eleanor Bron will be 80 on Wednesday. She is still working - she will be in Scottish Opera's production of Ariadne auf Naxos this year. Talking to Samira Ahmed she looks back over her long career, from the satire boom with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, through working with The Beatles in Help and roles in classical theatre such as in The Duchess of Malfi. The Great Wave at the National Theatre explores the abduction in the 1970s of Japanese citizens by North Korea. A look at these kidnappings through the eyes of one fictionalised family opens up questions of identity and belonging. Samira talks to the playwright Francis Turnly and the director Indhu Rubasingham about this little known aspect of far eastern politics .Following the announcement of the death of Sir Ken Dodd, Matthew Sweet discusses the role and significance of this jester who brought the comedic techniques of variety to television, and had extraordinary mass appeal. Presenter: Samira AhmedProducer: Julian May.

"When it's non-white work or non-white narratives there is less press interest and that lack of support doesn't encourage risk-taking. Not that it will stop me." *This podcast was included in The Stage newspaper's top podcasts of 2017!* This week Rebecca Atkinson-Lord talks to Indhu Rubasingham, artistic director of the Tricycle Theatre in London. The Tricycle is closed for a multi-million pound refurbishment which, Indhu says, has given her time to step back and think more long-term. She talks about religion, community, allocated seating and also discusses the clash between pragmatism and risk-taking, and between the Daily Mail and Corbynites. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writer Lindsey Ferrentino is joined by director Indhu Rubasingham to discuss the European premiere of Ugly Lies the Bone.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Indhu Rubasingham discuss this new production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat with Paul Gambaccini.

Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and director Indhu Rubasingham discuss this new production of The Motherf**ker with the Hat with Paul Gambaccini.

On Start the Week Stephanie Flanders talks to the award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, about the notion of 'home' in today's globalised world. It's a theme taken up on stage in 'Paper Dolls' directed by Indhu Rubasingham, which follows a Filipino drag act working in Tel Aviv. David Goodhart explores the British Dream and the successes and failures of post war immigration. And from the movement of people, to the trade in powders, salts, paints and cures, the poet Michael Symmons Roberts's latest collection is called Drysalter. Producer: Katy Hickman.

Indhu Rubasingham talks about her first season and upcoming plans as artistic director of London's Tricycle Theatre, which she took over in May 2012 from Nicolas Kent, who had run the Kilburn venue for 28 years.