The Works:Interview with playwright/film director Martin McDonagh & in the studio:Pianist Jerold Chu

Pianist KaJeng Wong came to our show a few weeks ago to give us a preview of this year’s Music Lab Festival. The festival’s still under way, but one of the highlights so far was the recent concert by pianist Jerold Chu. Jerold and his band will be with us later on the show to tell us more about his original music compositions.
But first, movies. Some film directors like to use the same actors over and over again. This repeated actor-director dynamic can be seen in the work of such directors as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino. Playwright and film director Martin McDonagh recently reunited two actors with whom he’d last worked in 2008, and for him and for them the old chemistry was still there. In March, McDonagh was here to attend the Hong Kong International Film Festival. We went to talk to him.