Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his pl...

Academic and critic Maria Delgado and writer and producer Jake Cunningham join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the film Tony, a film about the early career of food writer Anthony Bourdain, who is played by Dominic Sessa. The film also stars Antonio Banderas, who becomes an unexpected me ...  Show more

Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football World Cup.Artist Lachlan Goudie's new book The Secrets of Painting explores the creative big bangs in art over the centuries which ...  Show more

The director and stars of the off-Broadway play discuss its timely story and how rock music informs the production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

For years, the playwright David Adjmi was considered “polarizing and difficult.” But creating Stereophonic seems to have healed him. Stephen Dubner gets the story — and sorts out what Adjmi has in common with Richard Wagner.

Pop culture is full of fictional bands singing songs purpose-made to capture a moment, a sound. This music doesn’t organically emerge from a scene or genre, hoping to find an audience. Instead it fulfills an assignment: it needs to be 1960s folk music, 1970s guitar rock, 80s hair ...  Show more

A new musical from Hedwig and the Angry Inch scribe Stephen Trask and Wallflowers drummer Peter Yanowitz delves into the heyday of Studio 54 and Mudd Club. Along with stars Samantha Marie Ware and Peter LaPrade, Trask and Yanowitz chat about their rock-inspired new show. Hosted o ...  Show more