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Tom Scutt’s ski-slope roof of waving corn, on which Raphael Papo’s fiddler has his precariously symbolic base, has sadly been ...
Ahead of a major tour, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s multi-award-winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof moves indoors for a summer spell at the Barbican.
Grab a big hat and a handful of confetti: from *Till the Stars Come Down* to *Fiddler on the Roof*, it's all about the ...
Outlander' Star Sam Heughan is set for a murderous reign as the titular Thane who would be king in 'Macbeth' for his Royal ...
Toni Racklin, Barbican Head of Theatre & Dance, speaks of Boy Blue bringing “together ... And are the umbrellas a reference to you-know-which musical? I also think West Side Story and Into the Heights ...
He is played by Stephen Rea, who has arrived from Dublin in a Landmark production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, written in 1958 and directed by Vicky Featherstone. Rea is now almost a decade ...
EXCLUSIVE: The London Barbican Theatre’s scintillating production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, boasting an all-star ensemble led by Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke and Emma Corrin and directed by ...
It's a meta start to a talent-packed updating of a play about a group of writers and actors wondering whether theatre is still relevant in a world on the brink of destruction. So far so topical.
That's how Zachary Hart (who plays Simon Medvedenko) opens Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, adapted by German director Thomas Ostermeier, at the Barbican Theatre. The Seagull is a play written by ...
The first of Anton Chekhov’s four major plays – which, in the years either side of 1900, irrevocably shifted the course of modern theatre – The Seagull ... As for the design: the Barbican stage will ...
Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion in a bold new exhibition that ... to a new way of thinking for a more sustainable fashion future. The Barbican is widely ...
As part of Mime London’s 2025 season, French-Norwegian theatre company Plexus Polaire brings Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby Dick to the Barbican ... an aerial or side-on view of the action.