Barbican Theatre News

Save up to 43% on tickets to Kiss Me, Kate at the Barbican Theatre. Tickets are available from £22.50.

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for Olivier Award-winning classic Our Country's Good, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker,  and directed by Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan.

Multi-award-winning British actor, musician, and filmmaker, Giles Terera MBE has received the Freedom of the City of London. Learn more!

The producers of the brand new musical HERE & NOW, presented by UK pop sensation, Steps, have announced the lead cast joining the production. Learn more about the cast here!

A new production of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, starring Adrian Dunbar and Broadway Royalty and Tony Award Winner Stephanie J. Block, making her West End debut, has now opened.

Adrian Dunbar is the starriest of a starry cast, but lacks the specific experience required to lead the show to its fullest potential

Troupe and Park Theatre have announced initial casting for the world première of a new stage adaptation of John Galsworthy's seminal work, The Forsyte Saga.

Alongside one world premiere, three new Shakespeare productions and a major revival going on sale at Stratford, RSC Co-Artistic Directors, Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey, have announced their first Winter season at the Barbican, which sees two critically acclaimed productions transfer from Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sutton Foster's performance scheduled for tonight, Saturday, June 1, at the Washington Pavilion has been canceled. ​​​​​​

Go inside the sitzprobe for the upcoming West End revival of Cole Poter's KISS ME, KATE starring Olivier nominee Charlie Stemp (Crazy For Yoanu, Mary Poppins) and rising star Georgina Onuorah (The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma!). See the video.

The Barbican Theatre Plymouth has announced its Autumn programme of theatre, comedy, music and the world premiere of the theatre's Christmas show The Plymuff Players Present: Ciderella with local comedians Suzy Bennett, Edward Trip and actor Sam Crawley. Learn more about the full lineup here!

The Barbican has announced the winner of the 2024 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award, Finn Beames & Company. The new work, Quiet Songs, is a piece of music theatre for a single actor, a string quartet and an armoury of swords, and will receive its world premiere in The Pit as part of the arts centre's autumn season.  

 ONCE UPON A MATTRESS will open on Broadway this summer at The Hudson Theatre, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster! Foster will lead the Broadway cast, reprising her acclaimed performance as Winnifred the Woebegone.

The Washington Pavilion will welcome two-time Tony award-winning actress and singer Sutton Foster to the Mary W. Sommervold Hall stage at 7:30 p.m. on June 1.

Sutton Foster is coming to the Playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware this November with THE PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER. The performance is set for November 2, 2024.

Part violent psychodrama, part sunny romcom, The Winter’s Tale was not the most obvious of plays for the Royal Ballet to take on.

Established by theatrical producer Barbara Whitman in 2021, this award recognizes a woman, trans, or non-binary director who has developed a clear and distinctive artistic voice and demonstrated unique vision in their theatrical work.

The multi-award-winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro which recently wrapped up a successful return engagement the at Barbican Theatre, will transfer to London's West End in early 2025.

Papatango has announced a new Autumn tour of Chris Foxon's adaptation of The Watch House, based on the novel by Robert Westall. This will follow the opening of Some Demon by Laura Waldren – this year's winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize, at the Arcola Theatre in June.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the sitzprobe rehearsal for A STRANGE LOOP at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. The production will next travel to Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.