The Destination City plan includes revamping old offices into cultural venues and creating several new tourist attractions, including the London Museum and the Barbican Centre’s renewal programme.

PLANS have been submitted for hundreds of new homes to be built on a prime site close to York city centre after two decades. The 2.2 acre site, close to York Barbican and next to the StayCity ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 84, Herbie Hancock hasn't given up tickling the ivories, and is set to perform a trio of dates at the Barbican in July. The Chicago-born pianist and composer performs a three-night ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...