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Essential
Classical Music
The world's best players, singers and conductors either work in London or head here at every opportunity. Take advantage of the best in classical music with our 2018 guide
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Theatre
The Outback gets its own back: eerie play Picnic at Hanging Rock transfers to London after taking Edinburgh, Perth and Melbourne by storm
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Dance
As the world premiere of The Nutcracker and I, by Alexandra Dariescu looms tantalisingly close, we talk to some of the artists bringing us a Nutcracker like no other
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Classical Music
A much-loved piano concerto is performed with a Tchaikovsky symphony
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Dance
The enthralling ballerina Zenaida Yanowsky returns to the stage in Elizabeth, choreographer Will Tuckett’s reading of the life of Queen Elizabeth I
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Tried and Tested
Dance
Michael Clark Company is back at the Barbican to delight and enthuse audiences with a remake of his 2016 tour de force. Don't miss this!
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Last Chance
Dance
The iconoclastic flamenco dancer Rocío Molina brings her show Fallen from Heaven to the Barbican as part of Dance Umbrella 2017
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Classical Music
Messiah is often sung and played by enormous forces, but smaller ensembles like this bring an electrifying directness and pace to the great oratorio
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Classical Music
British music is being championed by Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra, and that includes new compositions, like Helen Grime's
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Theatre
Blood and revenge are hammering in our heads - the RSC's Titus Andronicus comes to the Barbican
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Visual Arts
Why pay $100m for an original Basquiat when you can have it in clothing form? Answers on the back of a hoodie, please
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In The Know
The London Symphony Orchestra's new chief conductor is a game-changer for the capital's classical scene
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Things To Do
Basquiat makes his UK debut, ancient Siberian warriors settle at the British Museum, and the Royal Academy showcases American heavyweight Jasper Johns: Here's the best of London art this month
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Essential
Classical Music
With gorgeous Mendelssohn and Brahms melodies so excitingly communicated, the only problem will be how to stop singing along....
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Dance
Experimental dancer and choreographer Trajal Harrell is set to take London by storm with his first ever major performance exhibition in the capital
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Essential
Theatre
Technology and magic take over the Barbican stage as the RSC production of The Tempest transfers to London
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Festival
Out-of-this-world festival-exhibition hybrid, with new art and archive material focusing on all things sci-fi and sci-real
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Classical Music
Symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich, a Bernstein classic, and the first performance in Europe of an important new composition about our sense of place – spring highlights for 2018
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Things To Do
Things to do
Yes, Soho, plus a few suggestions that are a little more... offbeat.
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Preview
Dance
Submerge yourself in a seamless synthesis of fluid dance, hypnotic light and atmospheric sound when Darren Johnston’s new performance project, Zero Point, comes to the Barbican
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Cheek by Jowl's The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's late 'problem play', is a powerful, fulfilling exploration of jealousy, love and redemption
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Ivo van Hove's multimedia marathon staging of Shakespeare's Roman plays shows how achingly repetitive political history can be
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Last Chance
Dance
Human dancers; man-machines; a mechanical orchestra; and a series of the cutest ever humanoid robots perform in Blanca Li’s show Robot at the Barbican
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Features
London Symphony Orchestra 2017/18: Culture Whisper focuses on the top events to book
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Classical Music
A 10-day festival of music celebrates the arrival in the capital of Sir Simon Rattle as the new music director of the London Symphony Orchestra
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Preview
Classical Music
Hear the symphony that Mahler did not live to hear himself
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In The Know
The return to Britain after 15 years in Berlin of the London Symphony Orchestra's new music director is the best news of 2017
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In the Know
Visual Arts
The changing face of war photography: come and explore this immersive photograph exhibition from Deutsche Börse Prize winner Richard Mosse
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Essential
Visual Arts
The snazzy new Barbican Centre shop opens its doors after a major revamp, and introduces its Maker Series
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Features
Kings, rappers and schemers: the gender-blind casting on stage and screen helping to redress male dominance in the industry
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
Power, jealousy, deceit and seduction take centre stage in Shakespeare's Cymbeline at the Barbican
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Opera
What went through the minds of the team that created the first atomic bomb? That's the question that this sage composer addresses in his important work from 2005
