Interviews with leading figures from the arts
10 Questions for Director Lukas Moodysson
Friday, 18 April 2014
The Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson first burst onto the scene in 1998 with the chaotically romantic Show Me Love (original title Fucking Åmål), a story of a love affair between two teenage girls which shocks a small Swedish town. He followed that with commune comedy Together (2000) before eventually segueing into darker territory with films such as Lilya 4-Ever (2002), A Hole in My Heart (2004) and Mammoth (2009) which focussed on sex trafficking, amateur porn and the ills of...
10 Questions for Director Dmitry Krymov
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Dmitry Krymov (b 1954) is one of Russia’s most groundbreaking and celebrated contemporary theatre directors and set designers. Performances by his “Theatre Laboratory” are renowned for combining multimedia with art installation techniques to surprise and thrill audiences across Europe and as far afield as New York.The son of writer Natalia Krymova and theatre director Anatoly Efros, Krymov worked in set design during the Eighties but turned to art the following decade, forging a successful...
Celluloid Man: Preserving the heritage of Indian...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
This April is proving the kindest month for cinephiles. Hot on the heels of Mark Cousins’ engrossing A Story of Children and Film comes another...
theartsdesk Q&A: Lighting Designer Michael...
Monday, 14 April 2014
Last night the Olivier Awards handed their top honour for dance not to a dancer but to the man who shines the lights on the dancers. Michael Hulls,...
10 Questions for Drummer Billy Cobham
Monday, 14 April 2014
Drummer Billy Cobham has been an innovative and influential figure since the 1960s across jazz, Latin, funk and the areas of fusion between. He has...
theartsdesk Q&A: Eels' frontman Mr E
Saturday, 12 April 2014
Enigmatic alt-rocker discusses fun, fitness, parallel worlds, beards, and much else |
10 Questions for Ventriloquist Nina Conti
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
What makes a postmodern vent act tick? |
theartsdesk Q&A: Soprano Nicole Cabell
Monday, 07 April 2014
The outstanding American singer on winning Cardiff, crying in performance and Kate Bush |
10 Questions for Playwright Julian Mitchell
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
The author of Another Country on why it worked then, and still works now |
10 Questions for Zara McFarlane
Monday, 24 March 2014
Rising jazz star discusses reggae, her roots in Jamaican Dagenham, and the desire to write more |
theartsdesk Q&A: Singer Belinda Carlisle
Saturday, 22 March 2014
The Eighties star talks LA punk rock, George Harrison, booze, Orbital, rustic French living and much else |
I Found My Horn: Afterlife of a Book
Monday, 17 March 2014
How a book about the French horn moved on to the next stage. Plus author/actor Q&A |
theartsdesk Q&A: Saxophonist Julian Siegel
Sunday, 16 March 2014
Versatile sax virtuoso on the 95 percent of jazz that's in the collaboration |
theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Hofesh Shechter
Saturday, 15 March 2014
Brighton Festival's guest curator on new challenges and politics in art |
10 Questions for Fringe Magnetic's Rory Simmons
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The genre-straddling bandleader on the dangers of being an electronic nerd, cats and Jamie Cullum |
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Daniel Evans
Saturday, 01 March 2014
The actor turned Sheffield artistic director who has taken The Full Monty to the West End |
10 Questions for Drive-By Truckers' Mike Cooley
Monday, 24 February 2014
The band's songwriter on their 12th album and more |
theartsdesk Q&A: violinist Vadim Repin
Saturday, 22 February 2014
One of the world's great soloists discusses Tchaikovsky, MacMillan and his native Siberia |
Q&A Special: Stranger by the Lake
Monday, 17 February 2014
Actors Pierre Deladonchamps and Christophe Paou on Hitchcock, nudism and very unusual stunt doubles |
theartsdesk Q&A: DJ Kerri Chandler
Saturday, 15 February 2014
A history lesson with the godfather of soulful house |
10 Questions for Director Tom Morris
Tuesday, 04 February 2014
The co-director of 'War Horse' has created 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with Handspring's puppets. Here's how |
theartsdesk Q&A: Biographer Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens
Monday, 03 February 2014
As the film of The Invisible Woman opens, its author - and Dickens's biographer - reflects on a very Victorian love affair |
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Character Actor
Sunday, 02 February 2014
The great American actor has died aged 46. theartsdesk pays tribute with a major Q&A |
10 Questions for Harry Shearer
Sunday, 26 January 2014
He's been Montgomery Burns and Derek Smalls. Stand back for his President Nixon |
The Resurrection of Conor McPherson
Thursday, 23 January 2014
As The Weir returns to the West End, the ghost of booze no longer haunts the Irish playwright's work |
Tidy: Ruth Jones gets gonged
Wednesday, 01 January 2014
O. What's occurrin' is an MBE for the co-creator of Gavin and Stacey |
theartsdesk Q&A: Borgen creator Adam Price
Saturday, 14 December 2013
The man behind the hit Danish political drama reflects on its unexpected success |
Simple Minds and Ultravox, NIA, Birmingham
Saturday, 30 November 2013
New wave heritage show flavoured with some tasty treats |
The Wagner Interviews
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Introducing a series of video conversations with some of the world's great Wagnerians |
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