Wynton Marsalis is a great man, but his Fourth, “The Jungle”, is no masterpiece, not even a symphony – a dance suite, maybe, with enough bold textures to recall wandering attentions. We needed less of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba introduced the reference to "coercion" in the context of stepped-up Chinese military pressure against Taiwan at a summit last ...

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 ...

“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 ...

'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 ...

Relations with Russia may be icier than ever, but mutual antipathy has never dented our love for Chekhov. To all intents and purposes the man wrote four plays, and they’re never far from our ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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).

barbican.org.uk. A Maestro Stays On: Amid upheaval at the Kennedy Center, the conductor Gianandrea Noseda, who extended his contract through at least 2031, will stay on as music director of the ...

After a string of theatrical duds, misfires and howlers involving Hollywood heavyweights Sigourney Weaver, Rami Malek and Brie Larson, Cate Blanchett was the latest star of the big screen to have ...

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(It transfers to the Barbican Center on May 24). Marianka Swain, writing in The Daily Telegraph, called the production “a masterclass in balancing innovation with tradition.” Fein resisted the ...