Review
REVIEW: What to do when your husband and best friend are having an affair? The Constant Wife at Oxford Playhouse is ‘heart-warming and thought-provoking’
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What to do when you discover that your husband and best friend are having an affair? It’s a bomb of a question that...
Classical
OSJ spring concert highlights include BBC Young Musician of the Year pianist Ryan Wang and The Lost Music Of Auschwitz
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From Mozart and Beethoven to ‘England and Empire’, there's something for everyone to enjoy as The Orchestra Of St John's spring concert series...
Dance
DAY FEVER – the new afternoon dance party phenomenon brings wall-to-wall feel-good tunes to Oxford’s O2 on Sat thanks to Vicky McClure
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Feel like your clubbing days are behind you? Think again. DAY FEVER is igniting the party scene like never before, proving the best dancing days are...
Classical
REVIEW: ‘The best of the best’ OAE’s Mozart Clarinet Concerto ‘brought sheer joy and top-rate musicianship’ to The Sheldonian
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There was nothing dull or safe about last night’s concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in The Sheldonian. Instead the...
food news
NEWS: ‘It’s been an incredible journey’ Revered head chef Samuel Squires leaves The Old Crown in Faringdon as Jamie Whiting steps into his shoes
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News that head chef Samuel Squires is leaving The Old Crown Coaching Inn in Faringdon this month has come as a shock at...
Comedy
‘Maybe I should’ve had a gap year’ Nun The Wiser is Triona Adams’ comic show about life as a postulant in a Benedictine convent!
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"People are always interested in nuns. People love nuns. So they come to see anything with nuns in it," Triona Adams tells me...
Interviews
‘It’s the best role I’ve ever had’ Kara Tointon on starring in RSC comedy The Constant Wife coming to Oxford Playhouse
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You can't help but love Kara Tointon immediately - so refreshingly relatable, unstarry, lucid, articulate, friendly, engaging, yet at the same time incredibly...
Eat
BREAKING NEWS: The Oxfordshire entries in Estrella’s Top 50 Gastropubs 2026 with The Wild Rabbit in Kingham winning Sustainable Pub Of The Year
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Estrella's Top 50 Gastropubs have been revealed today with five Oxfordshire entries, seven in the Top 100, and The Wild Rabbit in Kingham...
brunch
REVIEW: If it’s a healthy brunch you’re after then head to The Handlebar in Oxford – it’s more than up to the job!
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January is always a bit bleak with the no-drinking, healthy-eating mantra constantly swirling around in our heads, especially on a Monday morning. So...
Review
REVIEW: Khalid Abdalla’s antibiography ‘Nowhere’ at Oxford Playhouse ‘takes you on a roller-coaster ride aimed at getting you to think’
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'Nowhere’ is a one-man show written and performed by Khalid Abdalla of Flight 93, The Kite Runner and The Crown fame. For 90 minutes...













