Competitions
VALENTINE’S GIVEAWAY: Win a meal for two with wine and jazz at The Ashmolean’s Rooftop Restaurant, or £100 voucher for Indian restaurant Tempering. Enter now!
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Love is certainly in the air at OXINABOX HQ as we launch our Valentine's competition with two stunning prizes up for grabs. Just...
Eat
REVIEW: How to bring your local pub back to life. Why Mayfu Chinese at The Chequers in Watlington is switching things up
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We'd never been to The Chequers in Watlington before, renowned, judging by its red plaque outside, for being featured in Midsomer Murders back...
Comedy
‘Going out on a limb when the audience goes with you – there’s no better feeling’ Connor Burns brings new show Gallus to North Wall
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"I think you've got to have some kind of sickness that makes you want to see it through," Connor Burns laughs, as the rising...
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...













