Barbican Centre News

Lea Salonga is going back on tour! The singer, actress and Broadway icon has announced the Lea Salonga: The Human Heart Tour. Check out a full list of tour dates below!

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announces the actors selected for The Wallis Studio Ensemble's 2018-2019 company. This marks the third season of this groundbreaking company for early-career actors producing theater for social change. The San Diego Tribune describes the emerging ensemble as 'hauntingly beautiful' - and by ArtNowLAas 'Mesmerizing ... harrowing and provocative, this is avant-garde theater that sticks with you long after the curtain comes down." The Ensemble also received the Los Angeles Times theater pick of the week in June 2018 and was featured on NPR's KPCC in a piece by Priska Neely in 2016, in its first season.

The Barbican's Framed Film Festival returns for another weekend of screenings and free workshops and events that celebrates the best cinema from around the world for younger film lovers.

The Barbican today announces its full January to June 2019 Theatre and Dance programme. Tickets for the season go on sale to Barbican Members Plus on Wednesday 17 October, to Barbican Members on Friday 19 October and on general sale on Friday 26 October 2018.

The Barbican today launches Life Rewired, an arts and learning season running throughout 2019 exploring what it means to be human in the face of technological and scientific forces that are dizzying in their speed, scale and complexity.

The wonderful, wacky and wigged world of classical music's favourite child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be brought to the stage in Circa's exciting new family show Wolfgang's Magical Musical Circus at Arts Centre Melbourne from 2 -12 January 2019.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ben Palmer will be joined by special guest narrator, Simon Russell Beale and Blue Peter presenter, Lindsey Russell as they take Michael Bond's Paddington on two family-friendly, fun-filled, musical escapades at the Barbican Centre. This project on Sunday 7 October comes as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations for Paddington Bear, as the brand marks the first publication date of A Bear Called Paddington in 1958.

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, a dynamic hub for the lively arts and vital community resource, presents the Los Angeles Master Chorale in two performances of Orlando di Lasso's dramatic a cappella masterpiece Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of St. Peter) directed by Peter Sellars on Saturday, October 20, and Sunday, October 21, 2018, at 7:30 pm, in the Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis. Conducted by the Master Chorale's Associate Conductor Jenny Wong and featuring 21 singers, the production is the first a cappella staging and most personal and emotionally-charged work to date from the acclaimed director's creative mind. Twenty-one singers transform the 75-minute Renaissance masterpiece - committed to memory and dramatically staged - into both a biblical parable of St. Peter's disavowal of Jesus Christ and a contemporary allegory for our fractious times. This marks The Wallis debut of the Master Chorale, whose appearance is part of a 13-city international tour that also includes performances at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, the Melbourne International Arts Festival in Australia, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, The Barbican Centre in London and the Cite de la Musique in Paris.

American-Lithuanian singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Abraham Brody has released the first single 'Judith' on the 31st of August from his most compelling body of work yet, titled 'Crossings' scheduled for release on the 16th of November via Bedroom Community.

35-years deep, Brooklyn's freewheeling local heroes They Might Be Giants remain rock's most original perpetual-motion machine; creating startling new music and performing shows packed with spontaneity and undeniable joy across the globe. Now they are bringing a brand new show, “An Evening with They Might Be Giants” featuring two big sets to Europe and beyond. The show includes all-time favorites, along with an ever-shifting rotation of fresh rarities spanning their epic career, and spur-of-the-moment improvisations that will delight even their exhausted road crew. And now for the first time beyond NYC, they're joined on tour with show-stopping trumpet genius Curt Ramm (Nile Rogers, Bruce Springsteen).

A performance at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois on September 13 will be the first date in the Los Angeles Master Chorale's wide-reaching tour of its acclaimed production of Orlando di Lasso's Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of St. Peter) directed by Peter Sellars. The tour will feature 21 Master Chorale singers conducted by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director, and Jenny Wong, Associate Conductor.

LA Opera will present an intimate concert by the renowned French Baroque ensemble Les Talens Lyrique, led by its founder Christophe Rousset. The performance will take place at 7:30pm on Thursday, October 11, at Zipper Hall, located on the campus of The Colburn School (200 South Grand Avenue,  Los Angeles CA, 90012).

HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director, and Kim Whitener, Executive Director) is proud to announce its 2018-2019 season, which marks the OBIE-winning institution's 26th year of producing of daring new hybrid performance by new artists from all disciplines - theatre, music, art, dance, puppetry, and media art.

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Four Quartets at the Fisher Center, which ran this past weekend! Check out the photos below!

Meet Beverly. You're invited to her party. Like most parties there'll be fun and games, drinks, shared conversations and energetic dancing. But at Beverly's party there will also be genuine heartbreaking moments as Beverly bravely gives a raw and honest account of surviving an abusive relationship.

In this feature, get to know choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - currently working on JAGGED LITTLE PILL at the American Repertory Theatre. Last week, Larbi's work was featured in a music video featuring Beyonce and Jay Z, APES**T.

Original, accessible and empowering new show from endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith runs for 5 days (12-16 June) as part of the Barbican's Art of Change season (also selected tour dates).

Original, accessible and empowering new show from endlessly inventive choreographer Rhiannon Faith runs for 5 days (12-16 June) as part of the Barbican's Art of Change season (also selected tour dates).

Meet Beverly. You're invited to her party. Like most parties there'll be fun and games, drinks, shared conversations and energetic dancing. But at Beverly's party there will also be genuine heartbreaking moments as Beverly bravely gives a raw and honest account of surviving an abusive relationship.

Meet Beverly. You're invited to her party. Like most parties there'll be fun and games, drinks, shared conversations and energetic dancing. But at Beverly's party there will also be genuine heartbreaking moments as Beverly bravely gives a raw and honest account of surviving an abusive relationship.