The Barbican’s platform had been specially enlarged to take ... Variety in programming is a good thing but to follow the simple, not to say simple-minded repetitions of Ravel’s Bolero with the glacial ...

The Barbican’s car parks will be transformed into an underground club for the first time as part of a new exhibition. A series of 11 commissions and installations will take place across the ...

Concrete brutalist architecture combined with an enormous assortment of tropical plants makes the Barbican Conservatory one of a kind. The huge indoor jungle is normally open to the public on ...

Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed the direction of French music in the early 20th century, leading to the ...

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An award-winning Plymouth chef behind a popular fine dining restaurant has branched out and opened a new street food venue on the Barbican. The Clippy is run by Fletcher Andrews, owner of Fletcher ...

With life-size puppets and cinematic stylings, Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick is a dark and immersive plunge into Herman Melville’s epic story. In many ways, the centrepiece of this year’s Mime ...

It’s a sizeable production, even by Vogue’s standards, but then there are 10 actors to photograph in roughly as many hours, each of whom is a vital ingredient in what Blanchett calls the “human soup” ...

In September 2024, a Final Fantasy VII Rebirth concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London sold out, and before that, the Barbican hosted the Sonic the Hedgehog live tour, filling the hall for three ...

ensemble132 presents a genre-bending program honoring the expansive legacy of two musical icons for their joint 150th birthday: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Maurice Ravel. This group of all-star ...

Hush… when the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died in 2023, she left behind her a trumpet concerto unlike any other, crafted to showcase the remarkable ...

Just over a fortnight ago, Tom Cruise showed exactly how you breathe new cinematic life into a much-loved old classic. Alas, Jurassic World: Dominion is no Top Gun: Maverick. Do you remember the ...