Interviews with leading figures from the arts
Q&A Special: Actor Bruno Ganz on playing Hitler
Saturday, 16 February 2019
There is nothing quite like the Iffland-Ring in this country. The property of the Austrian state, for two centuries it has been awarded to the most important German-speaking actor of the age, who after a suitable period nominates his successor and hands the ring on. There were only four handovers in the entire 20th century.
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theartsdesk Q&A: Musician, writer and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti
Friday, 08 February 2019
Cosey Fanni Tutti was born Christine Newby in Hull in 1951. She is a musician, performance artist and writer and is best known for her time with COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey. Her memoir Art Sex Music came out in 2017 and her second solo album, Tutti is released on 8 February.
theartsdesk Q&A: Robert MacFarlane's...
Wednesday, 06 February 2019
With books including Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks, Robert MacFarlane has established himself as one of the...
theartsdesk Q&A: Matthew Heineman on...
Saturday, 02 February 2019
The release of Matthew Heineman’s film A Private War, about the tumultuous life and 2012 death of renowned Sunday Times war correspondent Marie...
theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Michel Legrand
Saturday, 26 January 2019
“I want to be a man without any past,” said Michel Legrand, who has died at the age of 86. He had perhaps the longest past in showbiz. Orchestrator,...
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 |
Laurent Cantet: 'Young people have different preoccupations nowadays' – interview
The award-winning director discusses his new film, The Workshop, in which some newbie writers get in a tizz over the fine line between fact and fiction |
Robert Hastie: 'a seam of love runs through the play' - interview
The director talks about Macbeth in the candle-lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, cross-gender casting and the director's role |
theartsdesk Q&A: Theatre Producer Elyse Dodgson
Remembering the unsung heroine of new theatre in translation, who has died aged 73 |
Erik Poppe and Andrea Berntzen: 'When white young men do stuff like this, we just shake our heads'
Director and lead actor of Utoya: July 22 on working with survivors to recreate the Norwegian terror attack |
Matthew Holness: 'I wanted to make a modern silent horror film'
Footlights alumnus leaves comedy behind in disturbing debut feature Possum |
theartsdesk Q&A: guitarist Sean Shibe
A wise head on young shoulders questions the nature of expression and programming |
theartsdesk Q&A: Soft Cell
Prior to their O2 show the Eighties synth-pop icons talk new music, old music, 'Top of the Pops', 'Sex Dwarf', drugs, and Dennis Waterman |
theartsdesk Q&A: Chas and Dave
A memorial interview with the lovable rockney duo following the death of Chas Hodges |
Agnès Varda: 'You think I'm finished?!' - interview
Oscar-nominated at 89, the French filmmaking legend talks about her new film |
'It’s more fun to dance in a tutu': Tory Dobrin of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
The artistic director of the Trocks explains how he keeps his ballet parodists on their toes |
Ryuichi Sakamoto: 'Ideally I'm recording all the time, 24 hours a day' - interview
From Xenakis to Oneohtrix Point Never via Bowie and Bootsy, Sakamoto recalls an extraordinary life in music |
Ian Rickson: 'I'm an introvert, I want to stop talking about myself' - interview
The director staging Brian Friel's Translations at the National talks about Ireland, England and the changing face of theatre |
Michel Hazanavicius: 'Losing himself is how he found himself'
The Oscar-winning director's new film, 'Redoubtable', charts the turning point in the life and career of the legendary Jean-Luc Godard |
10 Questions for Artist David Shrigley
The provocative artist talks festivals, moshpits, Google and much more |
Andrew Haigh: 'In the end you have to be able to make the decisions' - interview
The Yorkshire-born director on his new film 'Lean on Pete' |
Violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing: 'in the moments when magic happens, you think, that's why we do this'
On a Norwegian rediscovery, communication and twentysomething enterprise |
10 Questions for Sharon Smith of Arts Collective Gob Squad
Sharon Smith of the Berlin-based Gob Squad talks age, Oscar Wilde and Nicki Minaj |
10 Questions for Courtney Pine: 'How do you express rage?'
Pioneering solo jazz artist hails the community of jazz |
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