Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of 'Oedipus' dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three ...

Marg Horwell, multi award-winning set and costume designer of "The Picture of Dorian Gray," chatted about being a part of the latest production.

An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the ...

At 84, Herbie Hancock hasn't given up tickling the ivories, and is set to perform a trio of dates at the Barbican ... since his first London show at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park.

Break out your bell-bottoms and platform shoes, and do the hustle to “Dancing Queen”: it’s all about the 1970s right now in London theatre! Audiences just can’t get enough of that distinctive decade, ...

You will be empowered to use your own stories and perspectives to remake the world of acting. At Wimbledon College of Arts, we promote non-hierarchical theatre making which means that no single ...

As Simon mentions in his opening patter, the show is directed by the great German Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Berlin’s hugely influential Schaubühne theatre. It’s quite the coup ...

Cate Blanchett is back on the London stage for the first time in six ... estate should note that the film star doesn’t make conventional theatre choices. Whether it’s Susan Traherne, the ...

For an obsolete and irrelevant art form, theatre’s doing pretty decently. A patch of very tall green crops grows in the centre of the Barbican’s sensibly curtailed playing space and Blanchett ...

Dress it up how you like ... drama about Guyanese needle-and-thread man Walker (Arinzé Kene), in 1970s London, is a lightweight, awkwardly designed period garment. Walker has chosen to accept ...

Ostermeier’s modern-dress staging features a design by Magda Willi dominated by a clump of rushes, out of which characters come rustling, often in states of fevered or repressed passion.

It runs at the Barbican until early ... She last performed in London in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre in 2019. Here, she takes on the ...