“We wanted it to be something new and exciting. Something bold. Something accessible.” Lady...
Playing Lady Macbeth is every actresses dream, and yet the famous Scottish queen remains entangled in the cliches and stereotypes which accompany her everywhere.
Emma McDonald’s new depiction...
Pavlova Winds, Radcliffe Strings, Clara Schumann, Adderbury Ensemble, Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel and...
Oxford Open Doors
PAVLOVA WIND QUINTET & RADCLIFFE STRINGS
Exeter College (Saturday, 4pm)
Sheldonian Theatre (Sunday 4pm)
Admission free
If you are in Oxford for Open Doors weekend, make sure you catch...
Let’s hear it for Clara! Schumann’s wife, and fellow composer, brought out of shadows...
Five musicians are celebrating the bicentenary of the birth of Clara Schumann with a special concert in Oxford that highlights her incredible contribution to the 19thcentury classical...
Awe-inspiring Australian acrobatic Circa takes to the Oxford Playhouse stage in Human
When Lachlan Sukroo was a boy, his parents would sometimes take him to see Circa, an internationally-renowned Australian contemporary circus ensemble, as a treat.
He stared in awe...
REVIEW: Why you should go and see David Hare play Skylight, at The Theatre...
Written by David Hare in 1995, Skylight is uncomfortably voyeuristic and tantalisingly engrossing. Like a jigsaw as the plot weaves and winds fatalistically through Kyra and Tom's...
A working gold toilet, Mini Me and Hitler. Just some of Italian artist Maurizio...
Always controversial, ambitious, brilliant and brazen, Blenheim Art Foundation will continue to enthral as it opens Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's new solo exhibition Victory is Not an...
Cabaret veterans Kit & McConnel are “like Flanders and Swann on steroids” as...
“We have much more fun than the audience does. They should be paying us, not the other way around,” James McConnel admits.
The Emmy award-winning composer, author and...
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s operatic version of the...
Skylight is the limit: How Chipping Norton Theatre’s home productions go from strength to...
Skylight is David Hare's most produced work, but news that director John Terry is taking on the Olivier award-winning play, has given the home-grown production a massive...
Fascism v unicorns and other pressing issues in 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fringe show Unicorn Party...
"Unicorn Party is a very contemporary response to the crazy times we live in," Nick Field tells me when discussing his one-man show.
Unexpected, exciting and at times...
