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…

The Butterfly Effect is a new Digital ReBels film co-created by the Barbican Theatre’s Young ReBels Ellie Macpherson, Ella Clarke, Jonny Hibbs and Chloe Fear. Using dance and technology to explore memories of our bodies in isolation, this project is…

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…

A new fund has been launched designed to help creative individuals and organisations start cultural initiatives that will create long-lasting positive change in Plymouth. The Cultural Investment Fund will give creatives the power to test new ideas and develop new…

I’m Laura Kriefman – the new CEO of the Barbican, Plymouth. I started 4 days before lockdown, and have probably had one of the ultimate ‘baptism of fire’ – having to close 2 venues, and find a new future for…

Barbican Theatre, Plymouth is excited to launch the first of their covid safe pop up performances for the communities of Plymouth. On Friday 14 August three small flashmob teams will visit six day centres and care homes across Plymouth for…

Exciting news! Barbican Theatre are launching an online community called b Hive (see what we did there?!). This will be a brilliant place where you can connect and engage with the work Barbican Theatre Plymouth is doing (even though our…

A message for members of our Performance Training Junction & COMPANY b members from our Young People’s Officer, James Woodhams I hope you’re all well and doing okay during these very unprecedented times. Our BTPT team have been chatting (remotely…