Jane Edwardes
Articles By Jane Edwardes
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![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...
![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...
![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...
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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...
![Pleasing but familiar: Imagine Dragons sixth album 'Loom'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Imagine%20dragons%20loom.jpg?itok=DipgP3A3)
Having propelled to stardom with their debut album Night Visions back in 2012, the Nevada pop-rock giants Imagine Dragons have reigned...
![Nardus Williams and Elizabeth Kenny in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, visible to a fortunate few](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/tj6WvCZ7.jpeg?itok=eZE5y4Ln)
Behind this poignant, simple-seeming hour of music for soprano and lute(s) lay a spider-web of connections between outsiders in the City: rebels,...