Filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures four years of a revolution’s rise and fall, revealing how poetry, art, and music became the ...

Akira Kurosawa’s profound adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, set in the historical backdrop of Japan’s 16th century Civil ...

Browse the Barbican’s series of talks and events, exploring a range of topics including arts and learning, crafts and history.

Content warning: This film contains references to war, and brief scenes of graphic and bloody violence towards children. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) provides guidance to audiences, ...

The Conservatory was designed by the Barbican’s architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, and surrounds the Barbican Theatre’s fly tower, from which scenery for productions taking place on the stage six ...

Please read our safety information so you can enjoy your visit. Show your e-ticket at the 'Tours Meeting Point' outside The Barbican Shop, on Level G. Our Architecture Tours take place predominantly ...

Browse concerts from the Barbican Contemporary Music programme, including artists from all forms of music, experimental collaborations and new talent.

On a magical island, a young hero makes sweet music with a beautiful sorceress. In old Vienna, a veteran composer encounters a fabulous new instrument – and finds he’s young again. And Ludwig van ...

This showcase brings together the Orchestra with participants from all across LSO Discovery’s work. Our programme will explore the transformative power of music and the vital role of ‘the artist’.

In February Evgeny Kissin anchored performances of Shostakovich’s sonatas for violin, viola, and cello. Now he returns to play the lean, sometimes wistful Second Piano Sonata as well as excerpts from ...

Adela (José Luis López Vázquez de la Torre) is a spinster who is desperately unhappy. Convinced there is something wrong with her – owing to a need to shave regularly and her complex romantic feelings ...