The Seagull at the Barbican review: is Cate Blanchett's performance the year's best? - 5/5 Blanchett delivers an highly skillful performance in director Thomas Ostermeier’s meta production of the Chek ...

As Simon mentions in his opening patter, the show is directed by the great German Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Berlin’s hugely influential Schaubühne theatre. It’s quite the coup ...

Led by a wildly over the top Cate Blanchett, leaning into all the histrionic impulses of the popular actress, Irina Arkadina, the jokes, the clowning and the putdowns come thick and fast. But there’s ...

London's Barbican Center is transforming one of its underground car parks into a rave space for a new exhibition called "Feel the Sound." The "multi-sensory" show will explore the relationship ...

London's West End theatres are enjoying record ticket sales and drawing millions of pounds of investment as a pandemic-era ...

Cate Blanchett is back on the London stage for the first time in six ... estate should note that the film star doesn’t make conventional theatre choices. Whether it’s Susan Traherne, the ...

London has reverted to its familiar gloomy weather. Thankfully, the city has many things to do — from exhibitions and events to theatre and ... completely free. The Barbican Music Library ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Tim Sheader, who last year became the Artistic Director of prestigious London theater the Donmar Warehouse, has ...

In the heart of London, the Barbican Centre’s Conservatory – a 1980s brutalist oasis filled with tropical plants – is hosting an immersive and site-specific exhibition from Indian artist Ranjani ...

What’s the point of theatre? It’s the question that director Thomas Ostermeier - once the enfant terrible of German theatre, who famously said that directors over 40 should stop working ...