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City of London, London · 3616 venue-listed performances across 119 productions · 2 SeatPlan productions · 98 access-tagged performances.

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15 shows

  1. film

    Parent & Baby Screening: La Bola Negra (15) (AD)

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    Architecture Tour

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    SCC: Persepolis (12A) x Marsm

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    Georgia's Test Screen

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    Fatherland (12A) (AD)

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    NAZA (15)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Primetime (15) (AD)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15)

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    Wildhorse Nine (15)

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    Opera Double Bill: Menotti & Bernstein

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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    Ensemble Pygmalion: Mozart's Great Mass in C minor

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    La Bola Negra (15) (AD)

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    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Architecture Tour

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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    La Bola Negra (15) (AD)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Wildhorse Nine (15)

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    NAZA (15)

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    BBC Symphony Orchestra

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Primetime (15) (AD)

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13 shows

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    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Architecture Tour

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    Barbican Ghost Tour

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    Wild Horse Nine (15)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Wildhorse Nine (15)

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    In the Company of Men + The Deep North (15)

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    NAZA (15)

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    London Symphony Orchestra

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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    La Bola Negra (15) (AD)

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    Primetime (15) (AD)

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14 shows

  1. exhibition

    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Architecture Tour

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    Fatherland (12A) (AD)

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    La Bola Negra (15) (AD)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Wild Horse Nine (15)

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    Wildhorse Nine (15)

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    NAZA (15)

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    Short Films by William Greaves 1959-1974 (15)

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    London Symphony Orchestra

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Barbican Ghost Tour

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  14. film

    Primetime (15) (AD)

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10 shows

  1. exhibition

    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Architecture Tour

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    EFG London Jazz Festival: Sounds of the Diaspora

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  4. Live event

    Visit Conservatory

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Barbican Ghost Tour

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    Guildhall School Big Band: Harlem Renaissance

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    Coltrane 100

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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  10. Live event

    LPFF 2026: Opening Night - Who is Still Alive (15*) + ScreenTalk

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

11 shows

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    Architecture Tour

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Musical Storytelling for under-5s

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    FFC: Ernest and Celestine - Winter Tales (U*)

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    Parent & Baby Screening: Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Hamlet Hail to the Thief

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    LPFF 2026: Who is Still Alive (15*) + ScreenTalk

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    Miles Davis: The Late Show - A So Watt Special (PG)

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    Barbican Ghost Tour

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    Asha Puthli: The Cosmic Voyager

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    Hamlet Champagne Treat

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

5 shows

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    Architecture Tour

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Robert Ryman: The Real Thing

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    Nearby Tube/metroBarbican · 240 metres

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    Members' Screening: Wild Horse Nine (15) (AD)

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    Visit Conservatory

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    John Coltrane, Soundtracking Cinema: Mo'Bette Blues (15)

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3316 further venue-listed performances falls outside the dates displayed.

Source Participating venue box offices (Spektrix public listings API). This venue source was last successfully read 7 Nov 2026, 03:15 UK. Dates and prices can change after we read them — confirm with the venue.

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Barbican Centre. Photograph: 14 November 2017, 12:06 (according to Exif data). Resized for web; appearance may have changed. Barbican Centre (28227542679).jpg by Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0.