Interviews

Backstage at the Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018, Gustavo Dudamel shares why John Williams is an example for all young artists in his unique approach to scoring the soundtrack of our lives. 

Young Men, a World War I-inspired feature-length dance film commemorating the Great War’s centennial, comes to Great Performances Friday, April 7 at 9PM on PBS. Young Men was filmed on location in Northern France with the BalletBoyz dance company.

What did you think of the first series of The Hollow Crown? The people gathered around the project were of really high standard. The quality of the acting, in particular, with people like Ben Whishaw, was particularly great. When I got an offer to play ...

What’s the story of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses? A power vacuum exists with Gloucester and Winchester vying for power over the new young king. Exeter is old-school, reliable, keeper of the peace. He wants to honor the deceased king but he ...

Were you familiar with the plays before you came to The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses? It was one of the plays I was least familiar with. They are quite exciting because they are rough and sprawling being written early in the career ...

How were you approached about taking part in The Hollow Crown? I’ve known Dominic Cooke for a long time and have worked with him before. He asked me if I wanted to play Margaret. I had seen Richard II from the first series and loved ...

What was it about this series and Henry VI specifically that made you want to do it? First of all, it was a play which I didn’t know at all. I think very few people know it, so unlike with a lot of Shakespeare, people ...

Mark Morris interview conducted by Elisa Lichtenbaum of WNET. Choreographer Mark Morris first garnered international fame for L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato when it debuted at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1988. Considered a landmark achievement, the work was inspired ...

Lady Gaga calls the PBS concert Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek LIVE "my favorite television performance that I've ever done." She describes the quality of the musicianship on stage under jazz legend Tony Bennett's leadership, and Bennett gives her career advice for ...

"This is the most important album of my career," says pop star Lady Gaga about Cheek to Cheek. In this interview with footage from recording sessions, Lady Gaga says that she actually sang jazz before she sang pop. Jazz legend Tony Bennett says, "For jazz ...