Don't miss the Tony Award-winning smash of the summer featuring an acclaimed performance by Sean Hayes, direct from a critically acclaimed Broadway season. It's 1958. The golden age of live television ...

A dream team assembles for a two-night residency featuring Rachmaninoff and Smetana’s greatest hits - a highlight of London’s cultural calendar. When pianist Seong-Jin Cho first played with the Czech ...

Whilst recovering in hospital from a devastating assassination attempt, renowned author Salman Rushdie looks back at his life ...

Sierra’s Avian Mirrors and Doolittle’s Field Guide bring us into the world of birdsong mimicry with a rich interplay between birds, while Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung presents photographically ...

Opening Tuesday 20 October, Spiritland at the Barbican is a brand-new listening bar located on Level 2 with lakeside views.

What might it mean to ground on a Black planet? This evening invites audiences into a shared space of sound, archive and reasoning, exploring memory, relation and diasporic connection. Curated by ...

A new, cutting-edge work celebrating the voices of six trailblazing women poets across a millennium of Chinese history through the power of choral theatre. Composers Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting ...

Semyon Bychkov enters the wild, wonderful dreamworld of the mighty Seventh Symphony. “The symphony should be like the world” said Gustav Mahler “ – it should embrace everything”. And in his ...

Step into the dazzling, defiant world of the iconic Joséphine Baker, as soprano Julia Bullock brings her voice, spirit and story vividly to life in this powerful, genre-crossing performance. Tracing ...

Experience an immersive reimagining of the literary icon's historic Tokyo jazz club in this rare concert featuring performances from iconic Japanese jazz bands. Music has always been at the core of ...

From Cinema Verité docs and observational filmmaking, to public information films exploring Black history, this selection from the renowned filmmaker shows the versatility in his works and styles.

Legendary jazz drummer Billy Cobham and his band Time Machine join us for a special performance, featuring classics from his catalogue alongside iconic jazz standards. Billy Cobham is one of the most ...