National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham Eyes Bollywood Talent, India Expansion — and Brings Ayesha Dharker Full Circle in ‘The Jungle Book’

When Indhu Rubasingham brought Shabana Azmi to the National Theatre stage in 2000 for Tanika Gupta’s play “The Waiting Room,” the institution was caught off guard. “At that time, people at the National didn’t know who Shabana Azmi was,” Rubasingham recalls. “They were naive to it.” What followed – queues around the block from Asian […]