whose last performance at the Barbican in 2023 was described as “completely engrossing” by The Guardian, celebrates his 85th birthday in April. It's also 51 years since his first London ...

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Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis ... The Conservatory was designed by the Barbican’s architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, and surrounds the ...

'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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The European Athletics Indoor Championships is being held in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands from 6-9 March 2025. Home favourite Femke Bol and the Dutch Olympic champion mixed relay team are set to delight ...

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).

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 ...

(“Poor little crumpet!”) Image Tom Burke, left, as Trigorin and Emma Corrin as Nina in this new adaptation of “The Seagull” at the Barbican in London.Credit...Marc Brenner In stark ...

Cate Blanchett was the latest star of the big screen to have a go on the London stage last night. Happily, she stops the rot. But, to be fair, that is thanks in large part to a remarkable ensemble ...