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UK Championship live stream 2024: How to watch snooker for free from anywhere, schedule

The 2024 UK Championship live stream could write a new chapter in the fledgling Trump-Wilson rivalry at York Barbican — here's how to watch from anywhere.

Tom’s Guide

Riots, disasters and cries for justice: the art show charting India’s wildest decades of political pandemonium

A shocking period of upheavals, from power grabs to nuclear tests, caused India’s artists and activists to innovate. The Barbican in London is exhibiting the defiant ones

The Guardian - UK

Ruth Negga to appear in Quiet Songs at the Barbican – her first London stage role in more than a decade

The actor will be starring in this new play by Finn Beames which features a string quartet and ‘an armoury of swords’

Evening Standard

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Cate Blanchett returning to London stage in The Seagull at the Barbican

It follows another production of The Seagull in London two years ago, which starred Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke

Evening Standard

Adrian Dunbar: 'We are gradually drifting towards a United Ireland'

Adrian Dunbar gives his views on a range of issues while backstage at London’s historic Barbican Theatre.

The National (Scotland)

The week in theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; Kiss Me, Kate – review

Shakespeare’s Globe; Barbican, London The possibility of pleasure is everywhere in Sean Holmes’s summer crowd-pleaser, while Adrian Dunbar tackles his first musical role in Cole Porter’s take on the bard’s least appealing play

The Guardian - UK

Upscale 128-room hotel to replace office blocks between Museum of London and Barbican

The Square Mile site will also include shops and a pocket park

Evening Standard

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Ibrahim Mahama tells us why he has covered the Barbican in pink fabric

Ibrahim Mahama's 'Purple Hibiscus' has transformed the Barbican’s Lakeside Terrace

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"Guerrilla festival" occupies Barbican over Gaza censorship row

The censorship row has reached boiling point and more lenders have removed their works from the Unravel exhibition

Evening Standard

Ronnie O’Sullivan reels off six successive frames to advance at UK Championship

The seven-time champion was back in action at the Barbican after withdrawing from the Champion of Champions event in Bolton a fortnight ago.

The Independent UK

My London: Yinka Shonibare

Artist Yinka Shonibare tucks in to jollof rice in Victoria Park, can’t stay away from the Barbican and Southbank Centre, and would love to live like William Hogarth

Evening Standard

Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight at the Barbican review – transcendent and poignant

The artist pulls off the rare feat of combining moods of elegy and resistance

Evening Standard

Buildings evacuated and roads closed after fire in Moorgate

Around 1,500 city workers were evacuated

Evening Standard

Barbican and Trafalgar Entertainment announce three-year theatre partnership

It builds on the success of 2021 smash-hit musical Anything Goes, staged at the Barbican, and the production of Broadway sensation A Strange Loop, which is still running at the venue

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Baaba Maal live at the Barbican review: a visionary artist

The Senegalese singer, who played an essential part on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s soundtrack, has a giant, powerful, and timeless voice

Evening Standard

£30 million City office block to be converted to ‘low-carbon’ flats

45 Beech Street, close to the Barbican estate, is set to be transformed into green housing

Evening Standard

My London: Ashish Gupta, slow fashion advocate and designer

The slow fashion advocate and designer Ashish Gupta eats home-made pasta with Dame Zandra Rhodes, discovers new art at Studio Voltaire and would live up high in a Barbican flat

The Guardian - UK

Them’s the Breaks review – join the community at art’s new frontier

Resolve’s collaborative exhibition features a library, a workshop and a stage made from recycled materials – all set up for visitors to make their own change

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The Independent UK

‘Guess what, I’m alive!’: How New York artist Alice Neel seduced us with her fearless, fleshy portraits

The biggest exhibition of Alice Neel’s portraits in the UK to date opens this week at the Barbican. Eloise Hendy explores the life of an artist whose canvases captured everyone from Andy Warhol to the socially marginalised

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Pappano review – a serving of big-boned late-romantic symphonism

Barbican, London Pappano leads the LSO with terrifying finesse for Coleridge-Taylor, Strauss and Liszt works, in anticipation of his new role as chief conductor in 2024

The Guardian - UK

Into the Void: the four-storey Barbican shell set to become a £3.5m home

Having bought the space in 2006 for £200,000, a former solicitor aims to sell the one-off 3,097 sq ft brutalist space to developers

The Guardian - UK

Don’t look into the wardrobe: are Peeping Tom the world’s freakiest theatre troupe?

The Belgian dance-theatre company love to create unnerving environments – and are set to put the apocalypse on stage. They talk about their taboo-trouncing shows

The Guardian - UK

The Museum of London: a fundamental clash as the City of London dreams on

As the museum prepares to leave its 70s home, plans to raze the site and build an office-led new complex have sparked a battle with those who want to repurpose what’s already there

The Guardian - UK

‘I wanted to show their innocence’: teenage drill rappers take centre stage in bold new play

As a sellout show at the Barbican unpicks the links between musicians, police and youth violence, its creator explains why it’s the middle classes who need to sit up and listen

Evening Standard

My Neighbour Totoro transfers to the West End: how the RSC turned a cult cartoon into a must-see theatre show

The creative team give the inside story on how they adapted the much-loved Studio Ghibli animation, breaking sales records in the process

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