Edward Gardner

Articles By Edward Gardner

Friday, 22 September 2023 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Creatives – or creatures? In the 1660s, women – having been banned from working as actors in previously more...

I can’t stop reading and re-reading the review copy I got of a new book, out next week. Liam Inscoe-Jones’s ...

Just now, the notion of a long-term project that concludes in 2041 sounds like an optimistic bet on the far future worthy of some 18th-century...

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Mariam Batsashvili, the young virtuosa pianist from Georgia, is a star. No doubt about that. Trained at the Liszt Academy in Weimar and winner of...

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So much looked promising for Irish National Opera’s first Wagner: the casting, certainly, the conductor – Music Director Fergus Sheil knows and...

When the world’s darkness is too much, there is a Netflix rabbit-hole you can disappear down to a kinder place: the...