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

The big winning production was Robert Icke’s Broadway-bound new take on the Greek tragedy Oedipus, which won the prizes for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant picked ...

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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.

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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 ...

Edward II (Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon) Edward II is a play beloved of students hoping to combine political protest with sexualised barbarism. That makes it an interesting choice for the ...

Cate Blanchett is incandescent in a Chekhov adaptation from Thomas Ostermeier and Duncan Macmillan that is relentlessly meta What’s the point of art when the world is ending? In this of-the-mome ...

Last night, director Thomas Ostermeier’s production of The Seagull, which he adapts from Chekhov alongside Duncan Macmillan, celebrated its official opening at the Barbican Theatre. Cate Blanchett ...

The ancient woodland of Burnham Beeches was actually purchased by the Corporation of London on behalf of the nation in 1880, hence the rather peculiar link to the Barbican estate. The forest was once ...