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Three performers between two vertical blue strip lights on the set of WITNESS. Photo by Adrianne McKenzie
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WITNESS, adapted from Alex Wheatle's novella, transfers from Theatre Peckham to the Barbican

WITNESS, adapted by Suzann McLean and David Fielding from Alex Wheatle's novella, transfers from Theatre Peckham to The Pit at the Barbican for three days in March 2027.

Key art for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard: two performers lean on a blank red billboard against a yellow sky, with three tiny figures standing on the gantry below
Upcoming and New Shows

Zoo Co take the 261-day billboard contest into The Pit at the Barbican

Tickets are £21.50 for Zoo Co's Three Men On A Billboard, which runs in The Pit at the Barbican from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 February 2027 and is live-directed from audience suggestions every night.

The Boy Blue company massed on a darkened stage with arms raised. Photo by Sophie Bradbury
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Boy Blue mark 25 years with A Night With Boy Blue at the Barbican

Boy Blue turn 25, and the company marks it with A Night With Boy Blue at the Barbican Theatre from Friday 19 to Sunday 21 February 2027 — students and professionals on the same stage, tickets from £22.

A performer in period dress sits on a sofa beneath towering puppet spider legs in Plexus Polaire's A Doll's House. Photo by Johan Karlsson
Upcoming and New Shows

Plexus Polaire bring a spider-haunted A Doll's House to the Barbican Theatre

The French-Norwegian puppetry company Plexus Polaire brings A Doll's House to the Barbican Theatre from Wednesday 3 to Saturday 6 February 2027, with artistic director Yngvild Aspeli as Nora and life-sized puppets as…

Two performers at work in the restaurant kitchen of Caroline Guiela Nguyen's SAIGON. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez
Upcoming and New Shows

Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings SAIGON to the Barbican Theatre in March 2027

SAIGON, the restaurant-set production by French director Caroline Guiela Nguyen, runs at the Barbican Theatre from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 March 2027. Standard tickets start at £24.

Jamael Westman as Dallas and Marisha Wallace as Jada join hands across a lamp-lit table in a booth in Table 17 at Kiln Theatre. Photo by Steve Gregson
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First Table 17 production photos show Marisha Wallace and Jamael Westman at the Kiln

The first production photographs from Table 17 put Marisha Wallace and Jamael Westman on opposite sides of one small table at Kiln Theatre, where Douglas Lyons’ romantic comedy reaches its press night tonight.

A performer in a cream suit holds out a vinyl record labelled The Brown Suite in front of a wall of records
Upcoming and New Shows

The Brown Suite opens its UK tour at Richmond Theatre on 30 September

The Brown Suite, a dance production set to the music of James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke, opens a thirteen-venue UK tour at Richmond Theatre on 30 September.

Key art for Wedding Fayre: the title in pink capitals above a toppled wedding cake, a brass horn marked with an anarchy symbol and a spilled HM.GOV briefcase, in front of a razor-wire fence
Upcoming and New Shows

Graeae and Derby Theatre to tour new folk-punk musical Wedding Fayre

Wedding Fayre, a new folk-punk musical from the disabled-led company Graeae and Derby Theatre, opens in Derby next February before a UK tour to six more venues.

A scene from Caroline Guiela Nguyen's Saigon, which comes to the Barbican Theatre in March 2027. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez
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Barbican sets out its spring 2027 theatre and dance season, from MimeLondon to Saigon

The Barbican has published Theatre and Dance: Spring 2027, a nine-event season running from January to May across the Barbican Theatre and The Pit.