Interviews with leading figures from the arts
theartsdesk Q&A: Director Peter Kosminsky, Part 1
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
The name will never trip off the public tongue. Millions watch his work - most recently his superb realisation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall. But there is no hall of fame for television directors. It’s only on the big screen that they get to be big shots. The difference with Peter Kosminsky (b 1956) is, although it’s the title he takes in the credits, he's not really just a director.
'It was appealing to make a thriller about mental illness': Gareth Tunley and Alice Lowe on 'The Ghoul'
Saturday, 05 August 2017
Gareth Tunley, director of the psychological drama The Ghoul, and Alice Lowe, one of its stars, are a duo with eclectic tastes. They share a background in comedy, but cite everything from punk to surrealism and the occult as influences on Tunley’s directorial debut, which was produced by Ben Wheatley.
Robin Ticciati on conducting Mozart - 'I...
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
When Glyndebourne's Music Director Robin Ticciati conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in the new production of Mozart's La clemenza di...
Olivia Williams interview: 'Are you on drugs...
Monday, 24 July 2017
Olivia Williams’s first film was, (in)famously, seen by almost no one. The Postman, Kevin Costner’s expensive futuristic misfire, may have summoned...
10 Questions for Adeel Akhtar: 'The first...
Saturday, 15 July 2017
Earlier this year Adeel Akhtar won the BAFTA for best actor. In Murdered By My Father, he gave a heartbreaking performance as the widowed father of a...
10 Questions for actress Tracy-Ann Oberman: 'it's made me pretty fearless'
The TV and theatre star charts her route from 'EastEnders' and 'Toast of London' to 'Fiddler on the Roof' |
10 Questions for George Stiles and Anthony Drewe: 'we are optimistic people'
The makers of quintessentially English musicals on heading back to the Edwardian era for 'The Wind in the Willows' at the Palladium |
theartsdesk Q&A: Musician Alison Moyet
'Alf' talks mortality, people-watching and not living by other people's rules |
theartsdesk Q&A: Nicholas Bullen, founder of Napalm Death
The grindcore legend on the 30th anniversary of Napalm Death’s 'Scum', the Supersonic Festival and politics in music |
10 Questions for The Radiophonic Workshop's Paddy Kingsland
The composer talks synthesizers, 'Doctor Who' and a new project that has a foot in the past |
h.Club 100 Awards: Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Joseph Houston and William Whelton found a storage space on Gumtree and turned it into a musical theatre. Here's how |
Koen Kessels: 'there's a joke in ballet we only have two tempi' - interview
The Belgian conductor on composers, conducting Swan Lake, and helping young musicians in the dance world |
Muhsin Al-Ramli: 'During Saddam’s regime at least we knew who the enemy was' - interview
Iraqi author of the acclaimed novel The President’s Gardens on life under Saddam Hussein and after |
theartsdesk Q&A: Soprano Aida Garifullina
The Kazan-born prima donna on Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov and Stephen Frears |
10 Questions for film director Roger Donaldson – 'motor racing in the 1960s was incredibly dangerous'
The story of his new documentary about racing driver Bruce McLaren, who was killed 47 years ago |
10 Questions for sound designer Adam Cork
Meet the sound magician behind 'Enron', 'London Road' and now Yaël Farber's 'Salomé' |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Jez Butterworth
Frank and wide-ranging interview as his new play 'The Ferryman' opens at the Royal Court |
theartsdesk Q&A: Horn-player Alec Frank-Gemmill
Four horns, four pianos, one CD; an original among musicians tells us why, and more |
Charlotte Rampling: 'I had to survive!' - interview
While she's never been hotter as an actress, her new memoir Who I Am bares all about grief and depression |
Brighton Festival 2017: 12 Free Events
Brighton Festival CEO Andrew Comben's guide to this year's best free stuff |
Anna Maxwell Martin: 'I like playing baddies' - interview
She's been Sally Bowles, Lady Macbeth and Elizabeth Darcy. Now for a gritty courtroom drama about rape |
theartsdesk Q&A: Writer David Storey, pt 1
The playwright on rugby league, Lucian Freud's dog and bashing Billington |
theartsdesk Q&A: Writer David Storey, pt 2
This writing life: second instalment of biographical interview with the Royal Court's Booker winner |
Artist Tyler Mallison: 'I don’t think about materials as being merely visible objects or things'
Technology as material, Madonna as muse: the artist talks about the themes shaping his current exhibition |
10 Questions for Poet Tommy Sissons
Rising young poet talks war, grime, social media and... poetry |
10 Questions for Director Olivier Assayas
The director of 'Personal Shopper' on Kristen Stewart, the supernatural and the secret meaning of texts |
10 Questions for Conductor Paavo Järvi
Following in the family tradition, a musical Estonian on London and Tokyo orchestras |
10 Questions for Director Ellen McDougall
On directing 'Othello' at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, and taking over at the Gate |
10 Questions for Director Gurinder Chadha
Her new film 'Viceroy's House' chronicles the partition of India. How did she get there from 'Bend It Like Beckham'? |
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