What a year 2020 has been! We first of all want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout this difficult year. Our audiences, colleagues, stakeholders, participants, young people, and friends have been fantastic and…

Barbican Theatre is excited to be returning to Plymouth City Centre’s Piazza, on Thursday 10 December from 5:30pm – 7pm with a vibrant programme of dance celebrating rhythm.  Our ReBels dance talent development groups, will be performing with energising rhythms…

Following the latest updated government guidance, Barbican Theatre will temporarily close its doors from Thursday 5 November until December 2nd. After this period of four weeks we will review the situation in line with the latest advice from the UK…

Barbican Theatre’s monthly Coxside Cafe Acoustica was due to take place in its usual home of the wonderful Teats Hill Amphitheatre on Friday 30 October. Given its proximity to Halloween a ghosts and ghouls Halloween special was the obvious choice. …

The Cultural Investment Fund is a collaborative initiative designed and delivered by Plymouth Culture, Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Box, Real Ideas Organisation, Barbican Theatre Plymouth, Literature Works, KARST and Take a Part. The initiative is supported in part by Arts…

Barbican Theatre, Plymouth receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund Barbican Theatre, Plymouth has been awarded £167,699 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and…

Issued Sept 2020 We know there’s a lot of uncertainty about whether there will be a local or national lockdown following the increases of Covid-19 cases in the UK. We’ve been preparing for this since we started planning our first…

On Tue 8 Sept 2020 the UK Government announced that from Mon 14 Sept, social gatherings in England would be reduced to a maximum of 6 people. This reduction applies to ‘social gatherings’ and as theatre and dance classes for…