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Award-winning actor and War Child Ambassador Gillian Anderson hits the stage - joined by a surprise cast of friends - to give voice to the raw, unfiltered fantasies of women from across the globe.

Bed into our Conservatory for a day of talks, workshops and performances on ecology and fertile ground. Join us for a day of readings, talks and activations centred around the conditions of life, all ...

Niall Harbison takes to the stage to discuss how rescuing street dogs saved him and inspired the creation of his charity Happy Doggo and Tina’s Hospital – a sanctuary for Thailand’s vulnerable dogs.

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy. Did you know the Barbican’s theatre and concert hall go deeper underground than the nearest Tube line; early plans for the Centre included a Pyramid; ...

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Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a day-long deep-dive into the life and work of Pierre Boulez. From 1971 to 1974 Pierre Boulez was the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra – a relationship ...

Was the Barbican deliberately designed to be hard to navigate? Not quite. The Barbican’s nature as an elevated island is due in part to the scrapped Pedways scheme, an initiative that once planned to ...

Tippet's moving pacifist oratorio meets Beethoven’s immense Choral Symphony. A Child of our Time was Tippett’s response to Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom against German Jews. In a unique, utterly ...

National Theatre Live is the National Theatre’s groundbreaking project to broadcast world-class theatre to cinemas in the UK and internationally. Andrew Scott stars in Noël Coward's provocative comedy ...

The orchestral space rockers play their seminal 1995 album Pure Phase in its entirety for a rare performance. Considered to be J. Spaceman's favourite Spiritualized record, Pure Phase is an ...

'Is there a better chamber orchestra in the world?' (The Guardian). Australia's premiere ensemble performs works by JS Bach, Sofia Gubaidalina and Shostakovich. With a zany finale that takes no ...