Joseph Walsh
Articles By Joseph Walsh
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![Crazy for you: Iestyn Davies as Orlando, with Rachel Redmond](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/orl%20id%20rr%202.jpg?itok=9-jsGU3Z)
The Academy of Ancient Music, which celebrates its “golden anniversary” this season, got going just as...
![And they're off: the cast of 'Starlight Express'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/starlight.jpg?itok=kMe9Ol6t)
The reinvigoration of Andrew Lloyd Webber...
![Me and Mr Jones: Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse with Jack O'Connell as Blake Fielder-Civil](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/backtoblackamyblake.jpg?itok=UkVKmMFF)
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s biopic Back to Black, written by Matt Greenhalgh and starring Marisa Abela (Industry) as Amy Winehouse, has...
![Fiery intensity: Katrine Sonstadt (on bass) with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/Pekka%20Kuusisto%20%26%20Norwegian%20Chamber%20Orchestra-%20DSCH%20Southbank%20Centre%2029-06-24%20Credit-Pete%20Woodhead-13_0.jpg?itok=7SvcYD1F)
This luminously persuasive, radically inventive performance of Shostakovich’s music...
![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...
!['A musical sophisticate'](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/mastimages/CS1021466-01A-BIG.jpg?itok=LfSOmSjX)
Jeff Mills has always been a musical sophisticate. Even in the early 90s when he was best known for derangedly pummelling...