David Nice
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![Pekka Kuusisto and members of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in 'Concert Theatre DSCH'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/pekka%205.jpeg?itok=QZGBpU_9)
Lilac time in Oslo, a mini heatwave in June 2023, a dazzling Sunday morning the day after the darkness transfigured of Concert Theatre DSCH, the...
If the holiday season has been lacking in sun so far in the UK, Sza bought the heat to the first Saturday of the iconic London summerfest in Hyde...
![Celine Dion: 'My voice was the conductor of my life'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Celine%20MAIN_0.jpeg?itok=UhWoPg4u)
It was 20 years ago that Celine Dion first experienced the muscle spasming which would eventually be diagnosed as Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS). She...
![Dear diary: Genevieve Gaunt in ‘The Marilyn Conspiracy’.](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Marilyn1.jpg?itok=bmHSytgt)
The death of Marilyn Monroe is a wet dream for conspiracy theorists. Like the assassination of JFK in the following year there is plenty of...
![P!nk's acrobatics were at the centre of a thrilling show](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/P%21nk.jpg?itok=SFioRk_1)
There was a point in this stadium spectacular when P!nk gave her fans two choices. They could either “make out with their partners or go queue for...
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Yorgos Lanthimos continues to navigate a highly distinctive, daring, one might even say sly path for himself. After attracting more mainstream...
![Live in 1974, Cluster exhibit their low-key approach to stagecraft. What is the brush for?](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Cluster_Live%201974_header_1000.jpg?itok=KzE4mkdM)
In 1974, two albums by German kosmiche musicians working with electronics became the first from the seedbed of what’d been dubbed...
![In the pink: Mean Girls Elèna Gyasi, Georgina Castle and Grace Mouat](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/2.%20Charlie%20Burn%20%28Cady%29%2C%20Ele%CC%80na%20Gyasi%20%28Gretchen%29%2C%20Georgina%20Castle%20%28Regina%29%2C%20Grace%20Mouat%20%28Karen%29%20and%20Elena%20Skye%20%28Janis%29.%20CREDIT%20Brinkhoff-Moegenburg.jpg?itok=9V15uqsd)
Nothing anybody over the age of 30 says about the new Mean Girls musical, spawn of Tina Fey’s witty script for the 2004 screen...
![Bethany Horak-Hallett's vivid Cherubino gets close to Samantha Clarke's peereless Countess](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Figaro-Website-Gallery-4.jpg?itok=g0_-fr3Z)
“Tradition is sloppiness,” Mahler the opera conductor is credited with saying. But in the case of old master John Cox’s long-serving Garsington...
It's a bold move by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to tackle Frances Hodgson Burnett's...