Interviews with leading figures from the arts
theartsdesk Q&A: Lia Williams on the challenges of theatre
Sunday, 14 July 2019
Lia Williams is not an actor who looks for easy options. Twice she has played two characters in the same production, switching between them for different performances.
Bob Dylan Special - theartsdesk Q&A: Scarlet Rivera
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
As Martin Scorsese’s new feature film, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, hits Netflix and cinemas, and a new 14 CD boxed set enters the official Bootleg Series, theartsdesk
'I wrote a letter to Björk in Icelandic and...
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Visits from major foreign ballet companies are always news, but a two-week London season by one of America’s “big three” is something to get excited...
Chamber Music, Brighton Festival 2019 review - Wu...
Monday, 20 May 2019
Martial arts mayhem, Shaolin philosophy, a tribe of masked hip hop warriors emerging from the mist of Staten Island, a Funkadelic-Parliament...
10 Questions for Cellist Raphael Wallfisch
Monday, 13 May 2019
Cellist Raphael Wallfisch thinks outside of the box. His concert repertoire spans the popular concerto choices – the Elgar, the Dvořák – but he doesn...
10 Questions for Director Benedikt Erlingsson
Woman at War's Icelandic director on eco-activism, being chained to a whaling ship and a peculiar Cold War childhood |
10 Questions for Musician Will Gregory
The Goldfrapp mainstay talks physics, Moogs, Morricone and his work with the British Paraorchestra |
10 Questions for Musician Soumik Datta
The British-Indian sarod player talks jazz, colonialism, film and more |
theartsdesk Q&A: playwright William Nicholson
The 'Shadowlands' author talks about CS Lewis, love, pain and being a writer |
10 Questions for actress and playwright Nicôle Lecky
The rising star of stage and screen talks grime, feminism, sex work, Nicki Minaj and SENSE8 |
theartsdesk Q&A: Bananarama
The indestructible girl group on singing, clubbing, post-punk, Lemmy, George Michael and much more |
Director Jason Barker: ‘Trans lives are often portrayed so bleakly’
A Deal with the Universe filmmaker shares the story behind his pregnancy |
Interview with director Agnès Varda, who has died at 90
The French/Belgian filmmaking legend talked with Demetrios Matheou about her career |
10 Questions for Brighton Festival CEO Andrew Comben
Helmsman talks art forgery, politics and the highlights of this year's programme |
Q&A special: The making of Local Hero
As it becomes a stage musical, the film's writer-director and stars recall the birth of a masterpiece |
An encounter with John Richardson, Picasso's biographer who has died at 95
Picasso's definitive biographer recalls the artist he knew |
10 Questions for Candice Edmunds of Theatre Company Vox Motus
The Glasgow-based artistic director talks theatre with a difference |
Director Toby Macdonald: 'Comedy is something people need at the moment'
Old Boys director talks about adapting Cyrano de Bergerac into a boarding school |
Q&A Special: Actor Bruno Ganz on playing Hitler
The Swiss actor, who has died aged 77, was the first to play the Führer in a lead role in German |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician, writer and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti
The “Wrecker of Civilisation” on artistic independence, magick and motherhood |
theartsdesk Q&A: Robert MacFarlane's Spell Songs
The nature writer discusses a stage version of The Lost Words, featuring musicians including Julie Fowlis and Seckou Keita |
theartsdesk Q&A: Matthew Heineman on directing 'A Private War'
Getting inside the mind of Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin |
theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Michel Legrand
He worked with everyone: the veteran composer tells his life story |
Screenwriter Adam Price on 'Ride Upon the Storm' - 'If we discuss faith, we will possibly not kill each other'
Lars Mikkelsen stars in new Channel 4 drama Ride Upon the Storm about a flawed priest battling his many demons |
'I'll show the lot of you!' Richard E Grant's Oscar nomination
The Withnail star celebrates his Academy Award nod for 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' |
Director Alexandria Bombach: 'I feel like a completely different person'
Director of On Her Shoulders on filming Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad |
theartsdesk Q&A: Hedvig Mollestad, Norway's bridge between heavy metal and jazz
The genre-busting guitarist talks about new album 'Smells Funny', a rotting eyeball and more |
theartsdesk Q&A: concert pianist Lucy Parham
Sixth Composer Portrait marks the Clara Schumann bicentenary |
Tim Wardle: 'A documentary director has huge power over the interview subject'
Director of Three Identical Strangers on the most successful UK-made documentary in American box office history |
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