Barbican Centre
Silk St
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The Barbican
Tove K Breitstein / Time Out
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The Barbican hall
Rob Greig / Time Out
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Barbican stairs
Rob Greig / Time Out
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Barbican theatre's stage
Rob Greig / Time Out
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The Barbican
Nigel Tradewell / Time Out
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The Barican's view
Tove K Breitstein / Time Out
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The Barbican fountains
Andrew Brackenbury / Time Out
Venue location
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Address:
Barbican Centre Silk St
London
EC2Y 8DS
- Phone:
020 7638 8891
- Website:
- Opening hours:
Mon-Sat 9am-11pm, Sun 12noon-11pm
- Transport:
Tube: Barbican
- Price:
£10, concs £8. Curve exhibitions free
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Map
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Barbican Centre
- Silk St
London
EC2Y 8DS - 020 7638 8891
- www.barbican.org.uk
- 51.519813,-0.093893
- Silk St
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Barbican Centre
- Categories:
Theatre. Experimental theatre. Theatre revival. Drama. Classical theatre. Contemporary theatre. Dance. Modern. Performance. Film. Documentaries. Foreign language. Political. Short. Classic. Indie. Special. World cinema. Music. Classical & Opera. Chamber. Choral. Opera. Post-classical. Jazz and experimental. Avant-jazz and free-jazz. Big band. Experimental and free improvisation. Latin jazz. Mainstream jazz. Vocal. Blues. Cajun and zydeco. Cabaret and standards. American songbook. Originals. Show tunes. Sport and fitness. Comedy. Art. Photography. Digital and interactive. Installation. Mixed media. Painting. Performance art. Architecture. Contemporary art. Cabaret. Books and poetry. Clubs. Things to do
- Facilities:
Eating and drinking facilities. Bar. Café. Restaurant. Food served. Accessible facilities. Wheelchair access. Devices for the hearing-impaired. Entertainment facilities. Late night. General facilities. Parking (paid). Outdoor facilities. Outdoor area
- Occasions:
Big-name talent. Culture vultures. Experimental. Feed your brain
What's on at Barbican Centre
The Bride And The Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg & Johns
Art
This combination of art and performance examines the influence of Marcel Duchamp on four important figures in twentieth century art, music and dance –Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Cage and Merce Cunningham and will feature over 90 works.
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Tue May 21
– Sun Jun 9 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- Online £10, concs £7; on door £12, concs...
The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Joh
Categories, Dance
- Critics' choice
Exhibition of art and performance looking at the influence of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp on four leading creative figures of the twentieth century: composer John Cage, artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and choreographer Merce Cunningham. On Thursday...
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Tue May 21
– Sun Jun 9 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £12, £8 concs; 13-17 years £7; under-12s...
Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer
Contemporary art
- Free
Farmer fills the Barbican's 90 metre Curve gallery with a vast collection of collaged hand puppets. The tiny sculptures, grouped together to look like a procession or a community, are made from pages of books, imbuing them with a strong sense of narr...
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Tue May 21
– Sun Jul 28 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
Mud
Rating: 3/5The Beach Boys’ feelgood jukebox standard, ‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is played twice in ‘Take Shelter’ director Jeff Nichols’s third feature, amplifying the sense of sunkissed nostalgia present throughout this amiable but over-familiar coming-of-age story –...
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Tue May 21:
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Wed May 22:
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Thu May 23:
- 18:00
- 20:30
I'm So Excited
Rating: 4/5One litmus test for auteurism could be whether a director is able to do his or her thing in a tightly confined space. ‘Stagecoach’ and ‘Lifeboat’ are unmistakably the work of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, despite being largely confined to, well, a...
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Tue May 21:
- 18:30
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Wed May 22:
- 18:30
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Thu May 23:
- 18:30
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Tue May 28:
- 20:45
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Wed May 29:
- 20:45
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Thu May 30:
- 20:45
A Hijacking
Rating: 3/5Danish telly has taught us much: the attraction of good knitwear (‘The Killing’); the finer points of Danish politics (‘Borgen’). Now, from this classy hostage movie, we learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates, and – perhaps more usefully – how to...
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Tue May 21:
- 20:45
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Wed May 22:
- 20:45
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Thu May 23:
- 20:45
The Great Gatsby
Rating: 3/5‘Romeo + Juliet’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ showed us that Australian director Baz Luhrmann can throw a hell of a party. Now, after the epic drabness of ‘Australia’ he pulls the stereo out of storage and does it again. The best scene in this fast and furiou...
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Fri May 24:
- 17:15
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Sat May 25:
- 14:15
- 17:15
- 20:15
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Sun May 26:
- 14:15
- 20:15
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Mon May 27:
- 14:15
- 17:15
- 20:15
Something in the Air
Rating: 4/5Olivier Assayas’s ‘Something in the Air’ is a swooning and swirling but always level-headed study of the lives of a small group of suburban Parisian teenagers in the years soon after 1968. An ensemble drama with a pleasingly light touch, it looks bac...
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Fri May 24:
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Sat May 25:
- 15:15
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Sun May 26:
- 14:30
- 17:00
- 19:45
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Mon May 27:
- 14:30
- 17:00
- 19:45
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Tue May 28:
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Wed May 29:
- 18:00
- 20:30
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Thu May 30:
- 18:00
- 20:30
WAGNER 200 Screening of Bayreuth Centenary Ring: 'Das Rheingold'
Film, Music festivals, German opera, Romantic music (1815 – 1910)
A screening of the first part of the landmark production of Wagner’s 'Ring Cycle' directed by Patrice Chéreau for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. A classic in the history of Wagner stagings, this production was hugely influential both...
- Fri May 24
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18
WAGNER 200 Screening of Bayreuth Centenary Ring: 'Die Walküre'
Music festivals, German opera, Romantic music (1815 – 1910)
A screening of the second part of this landmark production of Wagner’s Ring directed by Patrice Chéreau for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. The production, a classic in the history of Wagner stagings, was hugely influential both in its...
- Sat May 25
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18
WAGNER 200 Screening of the Bayreuth Centenary Ring: 'Siegfried'
Film, Music festivals, Romantic opera, German opera, Classical music periods
A screening of the third part of this landmark production of Wagner’s 'Ring' directed by Patrice Chéreau for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival in 1976. This production, a classic in the history of Wagner stagings, was hugely influential both in...
- Sun May 26
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18
WAGNER 200 Screening of the Bayreuth Centenary Ring: 'Götterdämmerung'
Film, Music festivals, Romantic opera, German opera
Introduced by Dame Gwyneth Jones (Brünnhilde), who is in conversation with Patrick Carnegy. (Patrick witnessed the famous Chéreau/Boulez centenary Ring live at Bayreuth in 1976. He writes extensively about it in his prize-winning book, 'Wagner and the...
- Mon May 27
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18
Beware of Mr Baker
Rating: 4/5It’s refreshing to watch a music doc, especially one with such intimate access to its subject, in which barely anyone is unreservedly polite about the person in question. By most accounts, Ginger Baker – celebrated Cream drummer, horse lover, polo pl...
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Tue May 28:
- 18:30
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Wed May 29:
- 18:30
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Thu May 30:
- 18:30
Iron & Wine
Pop and rock
Following his poppier and more electronic 2011 album 'Kiss Each Other Clean', Sam Beam returns with a new (fifth) LP, 'Ghost On Ghost'. If the title is anything to go by, this set is sure to get a good helping of his trademark hushed and haunting, beauteous...
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Tue May 28
– Fri May 31 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18-£22.50
Richard Alston Dance Company
Categories, Dance
- Critics' choice
As part of the exhibition 'The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns', a live performance in the Barbican Art Gallery by Richard Alston Dance Company. The company will be performing works by legendary choreographer...
- Wed May 29
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18-£25 (includes extrance to the exhibi...
Screening: Cunningham on Film
Categories, Dance
A programme of films featuring the work of choreographer Merce Cunningham in collaboration with filmmaker Charles Atlas. Includes 'Interscape' (2000) and 'Suite for Five' (2006), both of which have music by John Cage and designs by Robert Rauschenber...
- Sat Jun 1
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £6-£11.50
Neon Neon
Categories, Pop and rock
SFA frontman Gruff Rhys and LA-producer Boom Bip play '80s-sounding, shimmering, club-friendly tracks under their Neon Neon guise.
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Tue Jun 4
– Thu Jun 6 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £20 (Jun 6 Sold Out)
Rambert Dance Company
Categories, Dance
- Critics' choice
As part of the exhibition 'The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns', a live performance by Rambert Dance Company of Merce Cunningham's 'RainForest', danced in the gallery. Made in 1968, 'RainForest' showcases...
- Wed Jun 5
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £18-£25 (includes entrance to exhibition...
Rastak
World, Blues, roots and country, Folk
- Critics' choice
A 16-piece collision of sounds from all across Iran's stunningly diverse musical landscape. With sounds, instruments and songs from every corner of the country, the event promises a hefty and in-depth exploration some pretty far-out music.
- Sat Jun 8
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £15-£45
Lucinda Williams
Categories, Pop and rock
- Critics' choice
The hugely respected Williams is a Grammy-winning folk and country rock legend who has recorded for Smithsonian/Folkways, Lost Highway and Rough Trade.
- Mon Jun 17
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £10-£35
Tim Burgess
Categories, Pop and rock
As the former Charlatans main man, a keen advocate of the pudding-bowl haircut, and (perhaps) the inventor of the term 'totes amazeballs', Burgess is a singular presence in today's music scene. He plays a solo show to promote his latest mellow, psychedelic...
- Sun Jun 23
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £10, concs £8
- Fri Jul 12
- Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £25-£40
The Five & the Prophecy of Prana
Categories, Hip hop
- Critics' choice
Hip hop choreographer Kenrick 'H2O' Sandy's latest work for his company Boy Blue Entertainment is inspired by Japanese manga. Working with Japanese artist Akio Tanaka, 'The Five & the Prophecy of Prana' tells the story of five young troublemakers sent...
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Tue Oct 22
– Sat Nov 2 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £16-£32
Richard Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia
Dance, 20th century music (1900 – 2000)
- Critics' choice
Richard Alston, the most musical of choreographers, pays tribute to Benjamin Britten in his centenary year in this collaboration with the Britten Sinfonia. Dancers, singers and musicians share the stage, performing four Britten works: 'Lachrymae', 'Phaedra',...
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Wed Nov 6
– Sat Nov 9 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £16-£35
Scenes from a Marriage
West End, Experimental theatre, Drama, Foreign-language performance
The Dutch company Toneelgroep Amsterdam present a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's searing 1973 film about the breakdown of a relationship. Three sets of actors portray the couple, John and Marianne, at various ages. Director Ivo van Hove's previous...
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Thu Nov 14
– Sun Nov 17 - Barbican Centre Silk St, EC2Y 8DS
- £30
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