Barbican Centre News

Urban Bush Women will present SCAT! THE COMPLEX LIVES OF AL & DOT, DOT & AL ZOLLAR, a dynamic performance exploring identity and histor, at Bard Fisher Center. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Australian circus company Circa will bring their reimagining of Swan Lake to London this Christmas.  Duck Pond is a daring extravaganza that blends spectacular circus and world-class performance for audiences of all ages.

The Fisher Center at Bard will kick off its 2024 SummerScape festival with the world premiere of Ulysses. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Infinite Refrain, Music of Love’s Refuge', a new album that is the first of its kind, features passionate duets and arias that explore the nuances of gay love in the 17th century in Venice. Though often concealed or suppressed, the connection, doubts, joy, misery, laughter, longing, and elation of same-sex admiration existed, nonetheless.  Conceived as the journey of two men in love, told through 17th-century music, this album draws back the curtain of religious absolutism that has obscured stories of gay romance for hundreds of years.

Cast announced for CUTTING THE TIGHTROPE: THE DIVORCE OF POLITICS FROM ART.

Soprano Hera Hyesang Park is set to perform in a featured recital at the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris on May 19, alongside Bass Kyungil Ko and Pianist Jeff Cohen. Learn how to purchase tickets.

With their new work Cycles, it is clear that Boy Blue are at something of a crossroads.

Join the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) and LA Philharmonic as they embark on an international tour to Barcelona and Paris from May 24 - 31, 2024.

A series of rapid political responses, Cutting the Tightrope: the divorce of Politics from Art brings together award-winning playwrights with radically different voices to form an urgent response to the creeping repression of the arts. 

NJPAC Productions will present Carminho, the renowned Fado popular songstress from Portugal, at Town Hall in New York City. The event will take place on Sunday, November 24 at 7:00 pm, and will feature songs from her latest studio release 'Portuguesa'.

Carnegie Hall has revealed the summer concert schedule for Carnegie Hall Citywide, the Hall’s free concert series that brings a diverse lineup of live performances to neighborhoods throughout New York City. See the performers!

In the video here, watch Stephanie J. Block strike a pose as Lilli Vanessi in a photoshoot for Barbican Theatre's Kiss Me Kate!

Composer and percussionist Chris P. Thompson has released new album, Stay the Same.

Canadian Stage has unveiled its 24.25 season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Jacob’s Pillow announced that critically-acclaimed American choreographer Pam Tanowitz will receive the 2024 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Tanowitz will accept this award at Jacob’s Pillow’s Season Opening Gala in the Berkshires on Saturday, June 22.

Watch a trailer for Kiss Me Kate, starring Stephanie J. Block, Adrian Dunbar, and more, coming to the Barbican Centre in London this summer!

The LA Philharmonic and Deaf West Theatre will tour their production of Fidelio to the UK and more! Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Discover the talented choreographers and composers behind the scenes of McNicol Ballet Collective's latest production, COMPOSITIONS & CONFIGURATIONS.

Hollywood icon Henry Winkler will be embarking on a UK and Ireland tour for 2024 with Henry Winkler: The Fonz and Beyond. The tour will begin in Dublin at the National Concert Hall on 12th June and conclude in Guildford on the 3rd of July.

The Barbican has announced that Devyani Saltzman has been appointed its new Director for Arts and Participation. Saltzman is a Canadian writer, curator, public thinker, and cultural leader with over fifteen years of experience in cultural institutions, at the intersection between art, ideas, and social change.