Eat
Cabaret veterans Kit & McConnel are “like Flanders and Swann on steroids” as they prepare for entertaining dinner at White Hart in Wytham
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“We have much more fun than the audience does. They should be paying us, not the other way around,” James McConnel admits.
The Emmy...
Eat
Orwells entry in Good Food Guide’s ‘TOP 50 RESTAURANTS’, plus Oxfordshire’s 25 best eateries
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Orwells restaurant in Shiplake was voted 'no 28' in the top 50 restaurants in the UK by the Good Food Guide this week.
Coming...
Classical
REVIEW: Second World War setting for Opera Anywhere’s Hansel and Gretel triumphs in Sunningwell
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The innovative Opera Anywhere – now approaching its 20thanniversary – has come up trumps again with this lovely production of Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck’s...
See
Skylight is the limit: How Chipping Norton Theatre’s home productions go from strength to strength
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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...
See
Fascism v unicorns and other pressing issues in 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fringe show Unicorn Party at Burton Taylor Theatre
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"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,...
Comedy
Keeping Morecambe and Wise alive: Eric and Ern are back and coming to Oxford Playhouse
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It started off as a comedy sketch for a charity do in a golf club. Actor Jonty Stephens, whose impressions of Eric Morecambe...
Family
Fingest Great Barn Opera raises money for children’s charities with two epic concerts
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Just when you thought the summer opera season was over, up pops Fingest Great Barn Opera near Henley with an enticing pair of...
Eat
Like getting blood out of a turnip: Nearly 1.5 million Twitter views and still no word from Michael Gove. How Baz at The White Hart in Wytham has gone...
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It began as a joke, an exasperated reposte, a provocation, anything really to incite a response either from Michael Gove himself, or the...
Music
Lesley Garrett, Hansel & Gretel, A Tale of Two Cities, plus Corona Orchestra & Oxford Chorus are Singing For Syrians, in this week’s classical music round-up
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Opera Anywhere
HUMPERDINCK: HANSEL & GRETEL
Sunningwell Village Hall
Friday, 7pm
Tickets: https://operaanywhere.com
Opera Anywhere updates Humperdinck’s classic fairytale opera to wartime Britain. It’s Christmas Eve 1938, and Harry...
Art
“It’s just part of you. I don’t think of it as a job.” Sarah Spackman reflects on her fourth solo exhibition at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, becoming a member of...
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The artist Sarah Spackman is dressed in a navy canvas jacket, jeans and DMs, her glasses hiding a pertinent pair of eyes, totally...











