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Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

The National Theatre is worried about a shortage of skills from costume designers, to set creators, to computer technicians

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025

From theatre to tech, fashion to football: Meet the 11 most inspiring women in London

From designer Martine Rose to tech powerhouse Baroness Gustafsson, these are the most iconic women in the capital

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2025

James Graham unveils AI comedy at ‘greatest hits’ gala for Paines Plough

Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2025

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Curtain up! Meet the new artistic directors with great plans for British theatre

Our theatre critic welcomes inspiring developments at stages across the UK, from the Young Vic to the Liverpool Everyman while, below, some of the top new recruits talk about working post-pandemic in an era of funding cuts – and share the secrets of their trade

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025

Women’s prize for playwriting returns with record £20,000 award

Prize aims to support and showcase established writers and emerging talent in Britain’s stage industry

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2024

‘You become addicted to pressure’: Rufus Norris on success, stress and the National Theatre’s survival

He has triumphed over controversies, the ‘devastation’ of Covid and 100-hour weeks. As Norris leaves the biggest job in British theatre, he reveals his final season – and his plans to take up carpentry and design kayaks

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2024

Peanut Butter & Blueberries at the Kiln Theatre review: a gentle, elegantly plotted love story

This is Indhu Rubasingham’s last production before she heads to the National Theatre – a promising indication of things to come

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2024

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‘It’s the talent pipeline’: inside the National Theatre’s hit-making hothouse

Where does the National send up-and-coming playwrights to have their ideas honed, pulled apart, rebuilt – and turned into dramatic dynamite? Our writer is granted rare access to the hallowed confines of ‘the Studio’

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2024

2024’s Olivier awards remain too white, too male – and too safe

A string of seven awards for Sunset Boulevard was hardly radical, and many more daring theatrical successes went unrewarded

The Guardian - UK · Apr 15, 2024

‘Red Ladder shares a lot of my DNA’: radical Yorkshire theatre company’s new leader Cheryl Martin

The organisation’s incoming artistic director shares plans to tour a ‘massive immersive experience’ to empty spaces across the country

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2023

A truly national theatre must get out of London more

Letters: The National Theatre’s new artistic director must ensure that it engages with the regions, writes Ian Wood

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023

The week in theatre: The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales; Cold War; Pandemonium – review

There’s a puppet but no happy ending at Emma Rice’s fine new Somerset venue; Elvis Costello soundtracks a postwar Polish love story; and Armando Iannucci bravely tries to satirise the Tory party

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2023

Indhu Rubasingham’s National Theatre in-tray: lure megastars, deal with crises and define an era

The incoming artistic director at the NT must lead the institution and the industry, while choosing plays new and old for three stages. The job is a test of nerve and integrity

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2023

OPINION - Indhu Rubasingham: why she's the perfect choice for head of the National Theatre

The outgoing director of the Kiln inherits a strong artistic legacy but the finances are a lot less fun

Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

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?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

‘She will make the National Theatre truly feel national’: applause for Indhu Rubasingham appointment

As she is named the National Theatre’s first female director, those who have worked with Rubasingham praise her warmth, rigour and willingness to take risks

The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2023

National Theatre appoints Indhu Rubasingham as first female director

She succeeds Rufus Norris, under whose leadership the theatre enjoyed its biggest audiences

The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Indhu Rubasingham chosen as National Theatre’s next director

Artistic director of the Kiln theatre will take over from Rufus Norris in spring 2025

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The Guardian - UK · Dec 13, 2023

Indhu Rubasingham is the perfect choice for the National Theatre

The NT’s newly announced artistic director was an inspiring leader at the Kiln. She will bring experience, passion, canny ability – and the magnificently unexpected – to her new post

Evening Standard · Dec 13, 2023

Indhu Rubasingham: National Theatre names its first female director

The veteran director will take over as the new National Theatre boss from Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2023

After 60 years, when will the biggest job in UK theatre go to a woman? Why not now?

Only male artistic directors have run the National Theatre. It’s time to address that, says the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2023

London’s Kiln theatre appoints Amit Sharma as artistic director

Sharma, who directed the theatre’s acclaimed production Retrograde, will take over from Indhu Rubasingham in December

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2023

The week in theatre: A Mirror; Next to Normal – review

Sam Holcroft’s unsettling new play about censorship features a menacing performance from Jonny Lee Miller, while a musical drama exploring bipolar disorder is edgily transfixing

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

Safe pair of hands or time for a shakeup: who’s going to get the biggest job in UK theatre?

After Rufus Norris’s departure from the National Theatre, who is most likely to be the London powerhouse’s next artistic director? We look at eight potential candidates

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2023

‘Rare talent’: Kiln artistic director stands down after 10 years

Indhu Rubasingham’s legacy includes rebrand of north London theatre and bringing culturally diverse voices to stage

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