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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 ...

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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).

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So when Cate Blanchett rolled into town for a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” at the Barbican Theater, a little trepidation could be forgiven. But Blanchett is different.