A seamless blend of poetry, dark comedy and original music

For anyone aged 12 to 16 with a passion for theatre.

For anyone aged 17 to 25 with a passion for theatre

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Learn new skills or expand on your exsisting skills in these Adult Acting Workshops.

Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series

Straight from an award winning reception at the Edinburgh Fringe, is Jules Horne’s Allotment

Featuring Adrian Cox (clarinet) Play Jazz at Vespers

A captivating evening of music, poetry and more…

When Inspector Goole arrives unexpectedly at the Birling family home, their peaceful dinner party is shattered...

One day. Six cities. A thousand stories.

Beautiful beasts and where to find them…

If you’re passionate about acting, singing and dancing then why not audition for this year’s pantomime.

Choral Symphony (Ode to Joy) ~ Janáček Sinfonietta

Have your child's party at Oxford Playhouse and celebrate with a trip to the theatre! 

Ryan lives in a world consumed by image and obsession, where selfworth is measured in muscle mass and self-improvement becomes self-destruction. 

Conductor, Janet Lincé

 Have you decided what it is that you want to do with your life yet?

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Part of SJE Arts 6th International Piano Series

‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell.’ Anton Chekhov

The Sixteen

A disparate group of people are caught in a storm on the High Road, somewhere in the middle of nowhere.

Clowning workshop led by Mark Curtis.

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.

10am & 11am for Under 5s / 12pm for Over 5s

Kneehigh are back with their theatrical tour-de-force.

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 2019

Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts

Virtuosos Festival

Virtuosos Festival

Jimmy and Carrie have a dilemma. Carrie is recently graduated, already disillusioned by life and pregnant. 

We think we know ourselves and our world. This play challenges that belief. It follows four characters imprisoned, physically and mentally, by their o...

Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love.

Oxford Playhouse is thrilled to be bringing a programme of work to this year's Edinburgh Fringe. 

Songs, comedy, and the heartache of trying to understand a friend’s suicide

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Purcell: Ode to St Cecilia & Charpentier: Te Deum East Oxford Community Choir 

Florilegium

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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. 

The Playhouse Tent is going on tour this Summer! 

Ten acrobats take us on a stirring journey of what it means to be human...

Hustlers is a visceral and provocative portrayal of the lives of four kids making their living in a world not that far from our own: the streets.

Join Ian McKellen for his new solo show. 

“What was is it like in mummy’s tummy?” 

Jason Byrne returns with his brand-new show, Wrecked But Ready.

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The lord of the mince is back...

Mozart | Beethoven | Chopin

Mozart | Beethoven | Chopin

with Instruments of Time & Truth

Saxon, Bainbridge & Haydn

A world in which every word must be chosen carefully. A world in which every word is counted. Where every word matters more than ever before. 

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The road to happiness is a bumpy ride. 

For the romantic, the cynic and the sick of heart Love/Sick is a play about the kind of love you won’t find in fairy-tales. 

Historian Lucy Worsley wants to make you think again...

Part of 'Alexander Goehr & Martyn Harry: A Mini-Festival'

Passion, ambition and desire ignite in Shakespeare’s thrilling tragedy.

Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts

Nostalgic, naughty and perfect for now.

Mantra is a show like no other with a performer like no other. 

A Chamber Opera by Gavin Bryars, libretto by Marilyn Bowering.

A musical by Nia Williams

Oxford Festival of the Arts 2019

Oxford Festival of the Arts 2019

Ave Verum Corpus

Step into the Live Poetry Jukebox for an intimate and magical experience of poetry, visual art and performance!

There’s something unbearably sad about going to a museum and seeing an object that has lost its story.

1960, Brooklyn, New York. The Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters.

A moving and evocative tale of love, loss and...toast.

Oxford Festival of the Arts 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.

Oxford Festival of the Arts 2019

Ordinary Days is a poignant and lyrically witty musical that deals with tragedy and human character in an arrestingly poetic and distinctly comedic way.

Oxford Festival of the Arts in collaboration with SJE Arts

Abbey Road and Revolver live with orchestra  

For one night only, Oxford Gospel Choir and Grenoble Gospel Singers come together to bring the city alive with the sound of Gospel. 

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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 The Magic of Mozart

Russian and English favourites plus Beethoven

Come and see the rising stars of tomorrow! 

Music and Spoken Word

Beatrice Blackwood Event

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In this workshop participants will explore classic storylines and modern adaptations.

Excerpts from the writers plays will be performed by professional actors to inform the development of the scripts

Three evenings of new drama, written and performed by members of Oxford Playhouse Young Companies.

When an experimental physical theatre company decide to butcher The Catcher in the Rye on stage, many questions are left unanswered…

Join the creators of RawTransport™, a top-ofthe-line travel company that can take you ANYWHERE for ANY REASON. 

Watching tickets for Raw Transport. 

Reginald D Hunter returns to the Playhouse with his new show. 

In the shadow of a horrific catastrophe, Cloak and Hearse – proprietors of a funeral parlour – find themselves in desperate need of money.

After decades of civil war, the nation hangs in the balance. Enter Richard, Duke of Gloucester, to change the course of history.

Ross Edgley made history in 2018 by doing what no man has ever done before, swiming 2,000 miles around Great Britain.

Following a critically-acclaimed West End run Jon Brittain's Rotterdam is embarking on a UK tour.

Ruby Wax, the Monk and the Neuroscientist

The Ruling Class is a dark, witty, and satirical comedy that probes the hypocrisies of the ‘upper echelons’ of British society.

Morecambe, a northern seaside town, is struggling to survive just like its inhabitants. 

Maria Razumovskaya (piano)

Firmly established as an unmissable highlight in Oxford's cultural calender.

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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.

Plus Instrumentalist winners from Oxford Music Festival 2019.

Stick Man comes to the Playhouse for the first time.

A small village in rural Ireland is turned upside down when a major Hollywood film studio descends to make a historical blockbuster on location.

Tabby McTat is a cat with the loudest of meee-ews and a best friend with a guitar. 

A brand new version of the classic story of the three little pigs

1840. A young governess agrees to look after two orphaned children in Bly, a seemingly idyllic country house.

There’s a controversial new president in the White House, and racial tensions are on the rise.

Part of 'Alexander Goehr & Martyn Harry: A Mini-Festival'

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with Magpie Lane.

Pull up a seat around the hull of the Orca as we enter the movie world of Jaws!

The Seagull is Anton Chekhov’s most famous play. It is renowned for its large network of characters, vast landscapes, and intricate plot in four acts....

Oxford Festival of the Arts 2019

Ostracised, beaten, and accused of witchcraft by her local community.

Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation.

Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s much-loved Zog comes to life in this magical adaptation.

Your child will enjoy bringing their ideas to life in this fun and imaginative workshop