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Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

Krapp’s Last Tape, in which an old man rummages through recordings of his younger self, is back for two star-powered revivals. This haunting play invites actors and audiences to reconnect with their past

The Guardian - UK

Arts education is a right, not a privilege: this is a national emergency

Arts education in London is lagging way behind regions like Ontario, and represents a dangerous blind spot that hampers the development of young people, says Devyani Saltzman, Barbican’s Director for Arts

Evening Standard

Cate Blanchett soars in the Barbican’s utterly engrossing update of Chekov’s The Seagull

4/5 Tom Burke and Emma Corrin also star in this three-hour production of the classic play that’s languid, thoughtful, and often hilarious

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Brutalist Barbican unveils plans for biggest renewal since it opened in 1982

The centre was constructed on London’s biggest post-war bombsite and hailed by Queen Elizabeth II at its 1982 opening, as “one of the wonders of the modern world.”

Evening Standard

After The Brutalist: our readers name their favourite brutalist buildings

From London’s Barbican to Berlin’s Corbusierhaus, urban concrete edifices continue to inspire us – whether they be art spaces, apartment blocks or even car parks

The Guardian - UK

Sean Hayes follows Will And Grace co-star to make London theatre debut

Eric McCormack made his London debut in the musical Wild About You, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane last year.

Evening Standard

At home with Simon Rattle: ‘There are still things I feel are beyond me’

The world-famous conductor, 70 this week, on family life in Berlin, why music keeps you young and the bleak outlook for the arts in Britain

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The best theatre to stream this month: Mathew Baynton’s Dream, Hadestown and more

Anaïs Mitchell’s underworld musical gets a West End spin and the Horrible Histories star’s Bottom are among this month’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

La Rondine at the Barbican review: this little-known Puccini work deserves a regular place in opera's canon

5/5 An Antonio Pappano favourite, Puccini’s eigth opera builds to the kind of heart-stopping climax familiar from the composer’s better-known works

Evening Standard

The Buddha of Suburbia at the Barbican review: an exuberant affair exploring cultural and sexual identity

4/5 There are terrific performances, puppets and plenty of shagging in this adaptation of Hanif Kureishi’s novel

Evening Standard

M. Butterfly review – Huang Ruo’s cross-cultural opera gets an enthralling UK premiere

Remarkable performances keep us guessing about the intricacies of the east-west relationship at the heart of this BBCSO/Barbican concert staging

The Guardian - UK

London's unmissable gigs and club nights this weekend

Maddy Mussen shares her pick of the shows to see and be seen at this weekend

Evening Standard

Inside Noah Davis' rich, cinematic world

Nearly a decade after Noah Davis' passing, a touring retrospective sets out to bring his work to a wider audience

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On my radar: Yotam Ottolenghi’s cultural highlights

The chef on a novel that triumphantly captures messy London life, a Turkish Netflix drama that shows Istanbul’s split worlds and the app that gets him going in the morning

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A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale

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Francis Alÿs plots child play around the world at the Barbican

In Francis Alÿs' exhibition ‘Ricochets’ at London’s Barbican, the artist explores the universality of play, even in challenging situations

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Kyoto exhibition collates Veronica Ditting’s influential printed matter for the world’s biggest brands

Creative director and designer Veronica Ditting has created printed matter for The Row, Hermès and Maison Margiela. Now, a new exhibition in Kyoto, ‘Folio Folio Folio: Print by Veronica Ditting’ celebrates her influential career so far

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Beton, Spacemade’s new Barbican co-working space, offers facilities with a fashionable edge

Beton is a new co-working space looking to nurture a creative ecosystem in the heart of London's EC1

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The Independent UK

Kiss Me, Kate review: A supremely silly evening of summer escapism

‘Line of Duty’ star Adrian Dunbar teams up with Broadway legend Stephanie J Block for another perfectly pitched Cole Porter revival at the Barbican

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Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant

Visitor experience workers at London’s Tate Modern, Serpentine, Barbican and V&A share what it’s like to watch people looking at art during a time of changing attention spans and rising vandalism

Evening Standard

Doomed architecture: London's greatest unbuilt buildings include a glowing pod and a giant glass pyramid

Here are the amazing London building projects that were never meant to be, or just too over-the-top to even begin to be affordable

Evening Standard

Mary Said What She Said at the Barbican review: Isabelle Huppert is riveting in this complex, rewarding show

This is no easy star vehicle – it’s a bold challenge to the great French actor’s technique, charisma and rigour and she rises to it

The Guardian - UK

Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life review – down the rabbit hole with a musical maverick

He played cello for Allen Ginsberg, nearly joined Talking Heads and was sampled by Kanye West. Now the singular, genre-spanning Russell has the exhaustive study he deserves

The Guardian - UK

‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama has draped London’s brutalist landmark in 2,000 square metres of fabric, including robes that have been urinated on. The artist, whose rise has been meteoric, explains why

The Guardian - UK

Two artists withdraw work from Barbican show in row over Gaza talk

Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit ask for art to be removed from exhibition after venue pulled out of hosting speech about war

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