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Edward Gardner

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

It followed some...

Playhouse Creatures, Orange Tree Theatre review - jokes, shi...

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

Album: Perfume Genius - Glory

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

La finta giardiniera, The Mozartists, Cadogan Hall review -...

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...

La Cocina review - New York restaurant drama lingers too lon...

La Cocina is one of those films that cuts an excellent trailer, succinctly delivering just enough characters, plot and visual...

Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station - Arcadia

It’s been 14 years since Alison Krauss and Union Station released an album – 2011’s Paper Aeroplane. The world’s shed a few skins since...

Batsashvili, Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester revie...

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...

Blu-ray: Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper changed cinema with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) for pennies in rancid Southern heat, but came closest to a mainstream...

Der fliegende Holländer, Irish National Opera review - saili...

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

The Potato Lab, Netflix review - a K-drama with heart and wi...

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