Barbican Centre: the brutalist landmark weaving art into everyday London life. Destination City For many people, the Barbican is a place to visit, to catch a show, enjoy some food or just hang out. For others, like Jo Davis (Head of Retail) and Oluwatoyin Odunsi (Senior Producer for Learning & Participation), it’s a place of work – as seen in the video below. And for a fortunate few, [...]
Ariana Grande tickets for London musical ‘could easily go over £300’ Life&Style “Dynamic pricing” has forced some West End ticket prices as high as £400 – will Ariana Grande’s new production of Sunday in the Park with George cost as much as an all-inclusive break in the Med? While some figures including Andrew Lloyd Weber have criticised dynamic pricing – the act of putting prices up in [...]
Rohtko at Barbican: Savage and gripping satire of the art world Life&Style Rohtko at the Barbican | ★★★★★ Rohtko is one of the most astonishing pieces of work I’ve seen on a London stage. Created by Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski, it’s a genre-defying mash up of theatre, live cinema, installation art, dance and techno. The Barbican stage is filled with an ever-shifting series of sets built inside [...]
Beyond the Barbican: meet the Square Mile’s Bridewell Theatre October 2, 2025 Other than the Barbican, the Bridewell Theatre is the Square Mile’s most significant live performance venue. Here they tell us why they should win at this year’s inaugural Toast the City awards, celebrating the best of the Square Mile later this month. Why does the Bridewell Theatre deserve to win a coveted Slice of Toast at the [...]
How the Barbican Theatre has rivalled the West End for four decades August 21, 2025 Our Toast the City Awards are celebrating the City’s top spots and takes place this October. This week: the Barbican Theatre. Think of the Barbican Centre and you might picture the lakeside suntrap or Brutalist passageways that feel purposefully designed to get lost in. You might not immediately think of the Barbican Theatre, but here’s why you [...]
The incredible Barbican Centre bar with naughty, late-night energy August 19, 2025 Our Toast the City Awards will celebrate the City’s top spots and takes place this October. This week: the Martini Bar at the Barbican. Think of the Barbican Centre and Brutalist architecture and great sprawling public spaces come to mind. Inside and out, it is more about scope than intimacy, except for the Martini Bar. [...]
Goodnight, Oscar review: Will & Grace star Sean Hayes is magnetic August 7, 2025 Goodnight, Oscar review and star rating: ★★★★ It’s fairly obvious why writers turn to televisual ratings to source their intrigue: every scribe knows the pain of having their stories or subjects exploited to reach bigger audiences. File Goodnight, Oscar next to a litany of West End hits on the subject, including Network at the National [...]
‘Bold’ new plans for Barbican area submitted June 25, 2025 Plans have been submitted to redevelop 1 Silk Street, featuring a public plaza at the Barbican Centre’s main entrance and a retail arcade. The proposal seeks to turn the existing building, which is currently occupied by Linklaters but set to become unlettable due to tightening energy efficiency standards, into a “long-term, sustainable” site. “We’re pleased [...]
TikTok to create over 500 UK jobs as major plans revealed June 9, 2025 TikTok is to create more than 500 UK jobs and open a second office in London, it has been revealed. The Chinese-owned social media firm has confirmed its UK workforce will expand to 3,000 by the end of 2025 and it will open a new 135,000 sq ft office in London’s Barbican. The group already [...]
Feel the Sound: An exhibition on a different frequency May 30, 2025 Feel the Sound: An exhibition on a different frequency Thursday 22nd May – Sunday 31st August The Culture Mile Business Improvement District is delighted to be the Destination Partner for the most incredible immersive experience Feel the Sound at the Barbican. This new immersive exhibition will rearrange what you think sound is. Feel the Sound includes multi-sensory installations that [...]