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BARBICAN HALL

This venue runs a mixed programme of concerts and other events.

 www.barbican.org.uk is their website, with the latest details.


 

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Performance Schedule:
The monkey advises checking performance times on your tickets and that performances are happening as scheduled, before travelling.

Varies by event, see www.barbican.org.uk for details.
 

Ticket Prices:  

Varies by event, see www.barbican.org.uk for details.
 

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Buying Tickets Online:

Other Box Office Information

Tickets offered differ between outlets. Outlets also may offer different seats via their phone and online systems. Offers may be available click here.
www.barbican.org.uk, run by the venue itself, provide the service for this theatre.
A brilliant box office system lets you select the actual seat you require from those available. Colour-coded by price, some day all booking systems will be this way, the monkey hopes.

A reader notes, though, that you can't buy concessionary priced tickets online - you need to telephone for those.

Booking fees per ticket for online bookings:
Online is cheaper than booking by phone. A mere £1 per transaction, not per ticket, fee applies.

Other Online Choices (with S.T.A.R. genuine ticket agencies):

Independent S.T.A.R. ticket agencies may also offer an alternative choice of seats.


 

Box Office Information:
Tickets offered differ between outlets. Outlets also may offer different seats via their phone and online systems. Offers may be available click here.
Theatre Box Office:
Telephone: 0845 120 7500.
(020 7638 8891  if you cannot use the 0845 number)
Operated by the venue's own phoneroom.

A reader notes that you can't buy concessionary priced tickets online - you need to telephone for those.

Booking fees per ticket for telephone bookings:
Online is cheaper than booking by phone. By telephone, a £2 administration fee is added to the total TRANSACTION cost for telephone bookings.
 

For personal callers or by post: Box Office, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London. EC2Y 8DS
No booking fee for personal callers. Postal applicants pay 50p per transaction for use of a Barbican envelope, or can include their own, with stamp and pay nothing.
 

Special Access Needs Customers:
Wheelchair users and other registered disabled theatregoers can book their seats on 020 7638 8891 and enquire about concessionary prices that may be available to them. The wheelchair users line connects directly to the venue box office in London. Wheelchair hire bookings on 020 7382 7021. See Notes.

www.barbican.org.uk is the official venue website.

 

 
 
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Venue Seat Opinions:
Please remember that cheaper seats often do not offer the same view / location quality as top price ones, and that ticket prices are designed to reflect this difference.

Seating Plan Diagram

Stalls Dress Circle Upper Circle Notes
STALLS 
Five rows of seats are in front of the stage. The rest of the stalls is divided into a central and two side blocks.

The view of the stage is restricted in row G seats 4 to 7 and 71 to 74, H 3 to 6 and 72 to 75, J 2 to 5 and 73 to 76, and K 2 to 5 and 73 to 76. This is due to the angle of the seats preventing viewing of one third of the recessed stage. For orchestral concerts it matters not a jot - take these seats as a bargain. For soloist performances, these seats are a bargain if seeing the performer all the time is unimportant.

Sound is good throughout the stalls, allowing for the underlying noise of wood vibrating during loud passages. Row C at a lower price than the rest of the stalls offer best value, followed by rows D and E felt the monkey, but...

...A reader notes that:
"I agree about the stalls Rows B and C normally, but the other night we were at an ENO concert performance and there is no doubt that we were too close to the soloists. Such concerts are rare but when the front of the platform is heavily populated I recommend D and E." 

Another reader feels the same:
"rows B and C tend to be lower priced as they are too close to the stage and so the view is not as good. From Row D backwards the view is much better and they are better in value."

The rest of the stalls have good views of the stage. You pay for the angle you view the stage from. Frankly, the cheapest seats are best value here. 

Wheelchair spaces are at the rear of the two side blocks. The view and sound are excellent. See notes.

Legroom is good in all seats, best in row G.




DRESS CIRCLE 
Called the CIRCLE in this auditorium

This is split into central and two side sections by aisles.

The centre block offers the best views, the side blocks better value for money.

Sound is good in all parts of the circle.

Legroom is good in all seats.




UPPER CIRCLE
Called the BALCONY in this auditorium

This is split into central and two side sections by aisles.

In the centre section, Theatremonkey likes row D. This row has a wide ledge behind it which is handy for storing stuff not stowed in the cloakrooms. The view is clear, if distant from the stage, and sound is good too. Normally these seats are well priced offering great value for money. Choose these if the front stalls are more expensive or unavailable.

The side blocks offer good bottom price value in rows A to D seats 13 to 25 and 60 to 72. Beyond these seats the viewing angle is poorer for the same money though sound is not affected. Just take the named seats first.

Legroom is good in all seats.



Notes
Total 2026 seats.

Air-conditioned auditorium.

Infra red headsets available. Dogsitting facility. Adapted toilets available. Easy access through centre for wheelchairs from car park. Wheelchair users get free parking in centre. www.artslineonline.com has comprehensive details.

Bar, Restaurant, Café and Toilet facilities shared with the rest of the complex.

 

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Getting to this Theatre
Find this theatre on a Street Map
Nearest Underground Station Buses Car Park
Nearest Underground Station:
Two choices; Barbican - Circle Line (yellow), Hammersmith and City (light purple), Metropolitan (dark purple). Theatremonkey prefers Moorgate - Circle Line (yellow), Hammersmith and City (light purple), Metropolitan (dark purple) and Northern (black).

Use the button below to plan your tube journey to Barbican:

Or use the button below to plan your tube journey to Moorgate:

 

THEN:

From Barbican, follow the yellow line to the centre along walkways. 

From Moorgate the walk is shorter, at street level, for the adventurous. This monkey's route is to exit the station on Moorfields. It prefers the "West Side" exit. If you can use this one too (take the left hand exit), you will emerge facing a road, with a building opposite to the right. This building is called "Tranter House". Turn to your right and cross the road to it....pause a moment.

If you came out of the "East Side" exit of Moorgate Underground Station, you too will have a road in front of you, with a "Clinton Cards" on the far side of the road. Ignore it and look to your left. A "Dixons" shop is here. Turn to your left and walk in front of it, and keep going until you come to "Tranter House". Meet your friends here, and continue together to the Barbican Centre by...

Continuing along past "Moorfields House" until you come to the end of the street. There are no signs telling you, but you have come to "Ropemaker Street". Turn left into it, and walk along. You pass a pedestrian area on the left containing strange metal pyramids. Wonder at them as you pass. Keep going until you see ahead of you on a wall (across a roadway) a "Corporation Of London" Crest and signage. To the right of that is a tiny "Moor Lane" sign. Good news, you are in the right area!

Cross the road to this set of signs. Turn to your left and walk on passing a loading bay area. Just past this, is the turning into Silk Street. This is on your right. Take it and cross to the other side of the road.

Continue down it, passing blank walls with car park vents in them, to the Barbican Centre main entrance at the end of the road where it curves round. The centre is on the right, under the canopy with the statues on it. Careful the adjacent stage door and car park access ramps!

Ignore the curved entrance. Instead turn down the slope to the left immediately in front of it. Keep going, and the entrance to the centre is through the set of doors on the left at the bottom of the slope.

 

Buses:
8, 11, 22B, 25, 26, 56, 133, 141, 214, to Barbican / Moorgate. Follow yellow lines from Barbican, or directions above from Moorgate. Be aware that no buses stop outside the centre or close to it.
 
Car Park:
Within the centre. Make careful note of the car park number and bay numbers before leaving or you will probably still be searching for your car until next year. Also note the public foot exits from the car park to the centre are hard to find and narrow. This feature amuses theatremonkey as it seems the builders were embarrassed about having a car park linked to their nice arts centre. Strange.

 

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