WEEDS and rubbish litter land that is currently fenced off beside the York Barbican – but the forlorn wasteland could finally be revitalised if developers secure consent for their long-awaited ...

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Pierre Boulez at the Barbican review — the BBC at its best - 5/5 Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a ...

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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 ...

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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 stages.

SEATTLE — "Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form" brings more than 400 pieces of original art to Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP), celebrating the breathtaking impact Asian comics have ...

A new exhibition at London’s Barbican Music Library is exploring the past 100 years of Black British music. Black Sound London opened earlier this month and will be on display at the Barbican until ...

This Seagull soars away to over three hours, as there are also some Billy Bragg songs to perforate the fourth wall from the start and later to underline the working class credentials of Simon ...

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 ...

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).