French star Binoche, who won an Academy Award for "The English Patient," will appear in "Mademoiselle Julie" in September 2012, the theatre and music venue announced on Wednesday. Australian Blanchett, who picked up her statuette for "The Aviator," stars as Lotte in "Gross Und Klein" by German playwright Botho Strauss in April.

"Like (Lewis) Carroll's Alice, sometimes Lotte is too big for her surroundings and sometimes too small to be noticed within them," said the Barbican's description of what it called a "delicately surreal play." There will be a UK premiere for Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's rarely performed "Einstein on the Beach, An Opera in Four Acts", Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will be in residence, featuring British conductor Simon Rattle.

There will be the biggest British exhibition in 40 years dedicated to modern art movement Bauhaus which will include works from Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and Mies van der Rohe.