ENO production depicts event that changed the world.
Metatheatrical play is as absurd as it is brilliant.
Quadruple bill of innovative choreographic collaborations.
Quite simply, brilliant.
A visually stunning, boundary crossing piece.
A Surreal masterpiece before the word had even been invented.
Nineteenth century grandeur with a twenty-first century twist.
3D film opera comes to London.
One man, on a sparse set delivers extracts from Samuel Beckett.
Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 play, showing as part of the Barbican's Dancing around Duchamp season.
One of the best theatrical pieces of the year, if not the decade!
Taking interactive theatre to new heights.
Juliette Binoche takes to the London stage in this modern day adaptation of August Strindberg's classic.
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's 1976 opera enjoys its UK premiere.
Major new retrospective on life at the influential design school.
Cate Blanchett steals the show in Botho Strauss's 1978 play.
Bond fans will be in 00-heaven...
Animation, puppetry and human action blended into a fragmentary riddle
Shakespeare. In Russian. But don't be put off - here's why you should be excited about this new production coming to the Barbican...
A heart wrenching true story of family, love and war uplifted by singalong soul train classics.
Marooned on a large platform that swings on chains in a cavernous sea of black space, five silent performers bounce off each other for 75 minutes as they experience the wild emotions of being confined in a small space.
American theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford bring their hugely entertaining, dark satire on corporate life, office politics and human nature to the Barbican as part of the 2011 London International Mime Festival.
If it’s a quiet night out at the theatre you’re after then you might be better off seeking out some other review, since The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch is 110 minutes spent under near constant bombardment with mortars, IEDs and C-bombs.
After a summer's worth of refurbishment and a pair of name changes, two of the Barbican's three dining spaces re-opened at the beginning of October. Here's what we made of them.
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