
Aged 12 to 16 years with a passion for theatre?
Join our 17|25 Young Company.
This is a company for anyone aged 40+ with an enthusiasm to play and explore text on your feet.
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2019
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Choros Conductor, Janet Lincé
Featuring Adrian Cox (clarinet) Play Jazz at Vespers
Stifled by life in middle-class India, Krishnan is desperate to see more of the world.
Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series
Part of Passiontide at Merton 2019
‘When people can see you, they think they own you...’
Beautiful beasts and where to find them…
& American choral music
Leader: Catherine Leech / Piano: Anita d’Attellis / Conductor: Janet Lincé
Have your child's party at Oxford Playhouse and celebrate with a trip to the theatre!
The Oxford debut concert of Opus48
Ryan lives in a world consumed by image and obsession, where selfworth is measured in muscle mass and self-improvement becomes self-destruction.
A razor sharp, muscular, hour long attack on work place politics.
Oxford Opera Company makes its debut at the Playhouse.
When the Cat in the Hat steps onto the mat, Sally and her brother are in for a rollercoaster ride of havoc and mayhem!
Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series
1924. The Paris Olympic Games. A devout Scottish Christian runs for the glory of God.
Join us in a world of buckets, castle building, spinning and tumbling in this delightful show for under 3s.
Meet Geeta, a Sri Lankan girl living in a British world.
A free event from the African Women Playwright's Network
All-round entertainer, Count Arthur Strong comes to Oxford Playhouse.
The Curious Parcel is a new subscription box that brings a little bit of theatre magic to your living room.
£1 discount for various Dancin' Oxford Events
Oxford Coffee Concert Series
Kneehigh are back with their theatrical tour-de-force.
Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family.
Follow the exploits of Don Pasquale in this riotous new version of Donizetti’s classic comic opera.
Elgar - Conductor: Geoffrey Bushell.
Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts
As her father descends into Alzheimer’s, Tina tries to uncover the facts behind a family story that never rang true.
Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series
Celebrating 120 years since the birth of Francis Poulenc.
Come along and discover more fun things the Cat has stored in the big red box.
Goose loves the summer, playing with his family and friends, but soon it is time for him to fly south for the winter.
The Choirs of St Giles’ Church & Luceat Consort and Players
The German Comedy Ambassador returns to OP in May 2019, following sell out performances in 2017...
The perfect fun and friendly sing-a-long and play session for pre-school children.
Part of the Empowered Women Trilogy.
It's the one and only Horne Section's one and only 2019 Tour.
Join Ian McKellen for his new solo show.
With epic show tunes and killer beats, this classic story is brought popping and locking into the twenty-first century.
Celebrating women composers and performers.
Part of the Empowered Women Trilogy.
Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series
The lord of the mince is back...
Mozart | Beethoven | Chopin
Mozart | Beethoven | Chopin
with Instruments of Time & Truth
Afternoon Concert 5pm ӏ Gala Concert 7.30pm
Part of the Keble Early Music Festival 2019
Eva believes that she can fly. Jo doesn’t think so.
The Life I Lead sees Miles Jupp bring David Tomlinson’s remarkable story to life.
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2019
Lucrezia Borgia awaits entry to heaven following her demise.
Part of 'Alexander Goehr & Martyn Harry: A Mini-Festival'
Eternal Light
Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts
OU Sinfonietta and OU Jazz Orchestra
Internationally renowned Gecko return to Oxford Playhouse.
Part of the Keble Early Music Festival 2019
Mothers Who Make is a growing national initiative aimed at supporting mothers who are artists & makers.
Discover why Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has kept people guessing for so long, becoming the longest running show of any kind in the history of theatre.
Endymion
An Oxford Playhouse co-production with the egg, Conde Duque and Theatr Iolo.
The Museum Without A Home is an award-winning exhibition that celebrates the small acts of kindness that normal people have taken to welcome refugees...
Reimagining classical forms
SANSARA - Choral Masterpieces of Oxford
An Oxford Playhouse 17|25 Young Company production.
Bach, Beethoven, Schumann
Part of the Keble Early Music Festival 2019
The Noisy Animals are looking forward to their dream holidays and have some brilliant ideas about where in the world they want to go.
Do you believe in ghosts? Morgan & West don't but why should that stop them?
A disparate group of people are caught in a storm on the High Road, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts
Award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars brings you a gleeful, dark show about the hidden workings of envy.
Abbey Road and Revolver live with orchestra
Works by Mozart, Smetana, Pärt and more.
Dvorak 'American' Quartet, Copland and more.
Kaupo Kikkas, illustrated talk with the photographer
Works by Pärt, Mozart, Webern & Mahler.
Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford
The stage filled in Wolf-Ferrari Symphony and Schubert Octet.
Goldner Quartet play Beethoven & Shostakovich plus clarinet pieces.
Covers all 13 events in the Oxford May Music Festival
Prof. Robin Grimes. Imperial College, London
Great soprano songs with a variety of accompanying instruments.
Prof. Tim Leighton, University of Southampton
'We are all' - great jazz from the world-famous trio.
Dr Simon Boxall, University of Southampton
Prof Dame Ottoline Leyser, University of Cambridge
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For 50 years The Pasadena Roof Orchestra have been re-creating the sounds of a golden era of music from the 1920s and 1930s to widespread acclaim.
Part of Passiontide at Merton 2019
"It's not God I worry about. It's people."
Meet Princess. A cheeky 10-year-old, with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest.
Rambert2 is a new group of the world’s best young dancers, coming together to showcase the most exhilarating and fierce choreography around today.
Following the death of his predecessor, an established theatre producer takes on the most expensive Broadway musical of all time.
Reginald D Hunter returns to the Playhouse with his new show.
A deeply atmospheric drama about time and memory, loneliness and longing.
There has never been a better time to be an American comedian in the UK.
After decades of civil war, the nation hangs in the balance. Enter Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to change the course of history.
In a world gone crazy, can philosophy help? This sparklingly brilliant new show tries to give you the answer.
A troubled Friar rushes us through the mutinous streets of Verona, plunging us into a community torn apart by prejudice, conflict and violent crime.
Ross Edgley made history in 2018 by doing what no man has ever done before, swiming 2,000 miles around Great Britain.
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2019
Frith Piano Quartet
Maria Razumovskaya (piano)
Cushion Concert
Beverly is having a party and you are one of her guests.
Jonathan Powell (piano)
Spotlight is for anyone aged 50 or over with an interest in theatre.
OWMVC & Soloist Baritone Gwion Thomas
We all have a nationality. Or almost all of us.
Dancin' Oxford Festival 2019
A Quiet Revolution: English Vocal Music during the Interregnum
A British Northern Coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war.
Part of the Empowered Women Trilogy.
Part of 'Alexander Goehr & Martyn Harry: A Mini-Festival'
Alda Dizdari Violin & Tom Blach Piano
Part of the Empowered Women Trilogy.
Exploring the all-too-familiar theme of finality and closure..
Two frogs, Mabel and Garry, are ridden with the monotony of living.
Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved Zog comes to life in this magical adaptation.
Emma Rice is one the UK’s most well-loved and distinctive theatre directors.
As the former Artistic Director of Kneehigh and then Shakespeare’s Globe, she has spent decades creating shows which are filled with her trademark mix of joy, wonder and magic. And we’ve been lucky enough to have many of them visit our stage: from the melancholy beauty of The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk to the fire-side storytelling of The Little Matchgirl (and other happier tales) and her bold adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Come and join us, as Emma chats about her career to date, as well as discussing her new company, Wise Children, and their first show, very proudly co-produced by OP.
Age guideline 12+
Duration: 1 hour with no interval
Part of the Empowered Women Trilogy. Fiona Maddocks, The Observer’s classical music critic, discusses Hildegard’s life and writin...
Fri 1 Mar
The Festival Pass for Oxford May Music admits you to all 13 events in the 2019 Festival including: Thursday 2nd May 2019 LECT...
Thursday 2 May - Monday 6 May 2019
Our twelth festival will again be entirely at the excellent facilities of St. John the Evangelist, Iffley Road. Our core mission r...
Thursday 2 May - Monday 6 May 2019