Journey into the unknown with musical pioneer Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI in a concert inspired by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta, and narrated by Peaky Blinders actor Assaad Bouab.

Cinemas 2 & 3 are located at Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican Centre’s main Silk Street entrance. There are a couple of steep, dropped kerbs and an incline to negotiate between the two ...

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“I'm a geek for hire essentially, I love comics of all kinds,” said Paul Gravett, a curator with London’s Barbican Centre, which is partnering with MOPOP to bring the collection to Seattl ...

What was left of the broken hearts of Morgan Denny’s family have been torn to shreds. As they tried to look to the future, the rug was pulled from under them again when the killer driver ...

'Are you ready for a bit of Chekhov,' asks Zachary Hart's guitar-toting factory worker, Medvedenko before launching into a Billy Bragg number. It's a meta start to a talent-packed updating of a ...

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Cate Blanchett is back on the London stage for the first time in six years, playing the feted, self-absorbed, glamorous actress Arkadina in Chekhov’s first theatrical masterpiece The Seagull (1896).

A patch of very tall green crops grows in the centre of the Barbican’s sensibly curtailed playing space and Blanchett’s Arkadina, a grandstanding grand dame in a purple jumpsuit, commands it ...

while Trigorin is a writer who puts himself on the same shelf as Ian McEwan. With great humour but, more importantly, great complexity, Ostermeier lets Chekhov’s long love centipede (Medvedenko ...