Interviews with leading figures from the arts
10 Questions for Filmmaker Desiree Akhavan
Tuesday, 03 March 2015
New filmmakers often suffer an unhelpful onslaught of comparisons and labels. Yet Desiree Akhavan offers so many options as to deflect all of them – counter measures against the heat-seeking missiles of media stereotyping. She’s a bisexual, an Iranian-American, a second generation immigrant, a multi-hyphenate (actor-writer-director), a New Yorker with a line in neurotic anal-gazing worthy of Woody Allen, and she’s currently appearing in Girls alongside (and drawing comparisons with) the poster...
theartsdesk Q&A: Actress MyAnna Buring
Monday, 02 March 2015
There came a moment, around three years ago, when MyAnna Buring suddenly seemed to be in everything. "I'm so sorry!" she shrieks (ironically) when I point this out to her. She had given warning of her arrival by appearing in Ben Wheatley's Kill List and, rather more prominently, as Tanya (who as you'll know was a vegetarian witch from the Denali coven) in the concluding pair of Twilight films. Then Buring popped up in BBC One's Blackout, was Edna the Maid in Downton Abbey (where she brazenly...
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Jim Reid of The...
Saturday, 21 February 2015
With The Jesus & Mary Chain reformed and currently touring their epochal debut album, Psychocandy, theartsdesk reaches into its archives to offer...
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Sakari Oramo
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Rattle and the Berliners went home at the beginning of the week with vine-leaves in their hair. There's now something else to celebrate. Exactly one...
10 Questions for Rumer 2015
Monday, 02 February 2015
Last autumn Rumer reappeared with her third album, Into Colour, surprising everyone with a lead single that was disco-flavoured. The rest of the...
theartsdesk Q&A: Actress Liz Fraser
Saturday, 31 January 2015
She put the come-hither in Brit comedies, but has done her finest work in dramas |
10 Questions for Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The young British pianist talks about rare repertoire and his suspicion of major competitions |
theartsdesk Q&A: Novelist Hilary Mantel
Monday, 19 January 2015
A BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall is only the latest triumph for the double Booker winner. But what is the novelist's story? |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Ayub Khan Din
Sunday, 11 January 2015
The author of 'East Is East' on bringing his tyrannical father back to life onstage |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Nina Raine
Saturday, 06 December 2014
As a hit play about the NHS returns, the author-director explains its creation |
Miloš Karadaglić, 'the guitar player of the people'
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
How the man from Montenegro put the classical guitar in the spotlight |
10 Questions for Songwriter Jackson Browne
Monday, 17 November 2014
Veteran tunesmith on politics, David Geffen and life with the Eagles |
10 Questions for Musician Michael League
Sunday, 09 November 2014
Snarky Puppy's bassist and bandleader on composing for a collective |
theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Akram Khan
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Kathak and contemporary dancer talks about flamenco, inspiration, and his last performance piece |
theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Wayne McGregor
Monday, 27 October 2014
British dance-maker shares his views on creative practice, cognitive neuroscience, and critics |
Annie Lennox: The Jazz Singer
Sunday, 26 October 2014
Britain's best-selling singer on her new jazz album, Amy Winehouse and existential loneliness |
10 Questions for Musician Fuse ODG
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Anglo-Ghanaian rising star of the Afrobeats scene on making a stand for Africa |
theartsdesk Q&A: Conductor Jonathan Nott
Sunday, 19 October 2014
An Englishman abroad on balancing Mahler and Strauss with contemporary music |
10 Questions for Playwright Simon Stephens
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
The celebrated dramatist on adapting his idol Chekhov’s seminal work |
10 Questions for Conductor Alan Gilbert
Sunday, 12 October 2014
The New York Philharmonic's music director on recording a Nielsen cycle for 150th anniversary year |
10 Questions for Musician Jamie Cullum
Wednesday, 08 October 2014
The best-selling jazz artist on following his instinct and being part of the most exciting scene in the world |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Holly Johnson
Saturday, 04 October 2014
Frankie Goes To Hollywood's frontman on disco, art, the Eighties, HIV, Live Aid, Liverpool and what his maiden aunt made of 'Relax' |
'For classical musicians, Radiohead are the band'
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra on premiering a new work by Jonny Greenwood |
10 Questions for Soprano Sandrine Piau
Sunday, 28 September 2014
The former harpist who became the connoisseur's soprano of choice for Baroque and early music |
10 Questions for Conductor Vladimir Jurowski
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
LPO maestro on the ins and outs of Rachmaninov, focus of this season's celebration |
10 Questions for Musician Gruff Rhys
Saturday, 20 September 2014
Super Furry Animal travels to the heart of America in pursuit of a long-lost multi-media tall tale |
10 Questions for Actor Stellan Skarsgård
Sunday, 14 September 2014
Sweden's succesful export talks about the humour in brutality, the nature of Scandinavia and Monty Python |
10 Questions for Singer Sarah-Jane Morris
Saturday, 13 September 2014
Passionate, political singer discusses writing, Africa, and her career with the Communards |
10 Questions for Playwright Nicholas Wright
Monday, 08 September 2014
Great war story: on adapting Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' for the theatre |
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