Barbican and Trafalgar Entertainment unveil partnership

The Barbican Centre and Trafalgar Entertainment are collaborating on a three-year theatrical partnership to stage and develop new productions.

From 2024 to 2026, the two organisations will present large scale productions at the Barbican’s 1,200-seat theatre through an annual summer season.

They will also work together to commission and develop new live theatre events, to be staged at the Barbican and at other partner venues across the UK or abroad. There are plans for international cinema broadcasts of these productions, through Trafalgar’s Live Broadcast company Trafalgar Releasing.

The two organisations have been working together over the last three years, through Trafalgar Entertainment bringing Anything Goes to the Barbican in 2021 and 2022 and currently running A Strange Loop at the venue.

The new arrangement will also see the two parties introduce a work placement scheme to support the development of skills, experience and networking in backstage and technical roles. 

Potential placements include joining Trafalgar Entertainments’ production to learn about commercial producing, while opportunities at the Barbican will include shadowing key roles involved in the development of projects and summer season productions. 

“This exciting new collaboration will give us the opportunity to develop joyful, inspiring new work that reflects the world around us, while we maintain our important relationships with a wide range of other production partners that allow us to showcase artists from around the world to our audiences throughout the year,” said Toni Racklin, Head of Theatre & Dance at the Barbican.