REVIEW: Rock on! Jack and the Beanstalk at Oxford Playhouse is a joy from...
We all know what to expect from a panto right? A jolly romp into fairyland with all the usual suspects? But Oxford Playhouse has excelled itself this...
REVIEW: Is that a banana in your pocket? Chippy panto Cinderella is a jungle...
The Chippy panto manages to pull something intoxicatingly joyous out of the bag year after year. But when Cinderella was announced we wondered how they'd add their...
REVIEW: ‘An astounding range of tone and mood. Oxford International Song Festival shows Oxford’s...
We sat spellbound in the Holywell Music Room as soprano Gweneth Ann Rand, accompanied by Simon Lepper performed a miscellany of songs as part of the Oxford...
REVIEW: ‘Has he bit? Yes and swallowed’ Catch Creation’s bawdy, fast-paced, contemporary take on...
If you can’t entice an audience to watch Jonson's The Alchemist in Oxford, where else?
Academics aside, Oxford is where The Alchemist's earliest recorded performance took place in...
REVIEW: “If you fancy being scared senseless Then Murder In The Dark at Oxford...
It was enormously refreshing to be sitting down on the opening night of Murder In The Dark in a full Oxford Playhouse to watch something entirely new.
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REVIEW: ‘A brilliant, thought provoking, and thoroughly entertaining evening’ The House With Chicken Legs...
The House With Chicken Legs (only at Oxford Playhouse until Saturday, Sept 23), is exactly what live theatre is made for; magic and music, fable and frocks,...
REVIEW: “Sheer, unadulterated fun” Shrek The Musical keeps on giving – at New Theatre...
If you've somehow you've missed Shrek at the cinema, West End stage or on tour, then your luck is in because the famous animated film, and now...
REVIEW: Brown Boys Swim at The North Wall: “A refreshing, contemporary, seismic play and...
No wonder Brown Boys Swim won so many awards at Edinburgh Fringe, because the new play by young, local playwright Karim Khan hits you like a freight...
REVIEW: SOB AWAY – Blood Brothers at Oxford Playhouse is an emotional roller-coaster of...
Although Blood Brothers has toured the world, it was a first for Oxford Playhouse and for us. But after so long on the road could the mammoth...
REVIEW ‘A wonderful, quintessentially Oxford evening’ Creation does it again with Much Ado about...
Creation Theatre has done it again with their summer offering, Much Ado About Nothing, set outdoors in South Oxford Adventure Playground, which the July storms have made...
