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Oxford Playhouse
Beaumont Street
Oxford
OX1 2LW
Box Office: 01865 305305
Administration: 01865 305300
UP ‘N’ UNDER at the Oxford Playhouse
★★★★☆ This is a classic comedy written by John Godber back in 1984, which won awards, was made into a film and is still frequently performed today. Fingersmiths is a physical theatre company which performs 20th...
AIR PLAY at the Oxford Playhouse
★★★★★ Enter a world of visual feasts, surreal absurdity and hilarious clowning. For this is the world of Acrobuffos, husband and wife team, Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone, who create and perform their shows a...
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at Oxford Playhouse
★★★★★ This year The Playhouse has totally pulled it off with Jack in the Beanstalk. Hats off to Steve Marmion, the writer and director.This is truly a pantomime for our time, but a feel good piece of escapism ...
AS YOU LIKE IT at Oxford Playhouse
★★★★☆ There’s something about going to see one of Shakespeare’s comedies that is just so satisfying. You always know exactly what you’re going to get . . . All in all, this is a perfect play for a bit of...
FLOWN at the Oxford Playhouse
★★★★★ The show is full of spectacular aerial scenes but also simple beautiful moments like when Shaena Brandel dusts the rosin off her hands, creating a magical cloud of dust lit against the dark. There were ma...
Northern Broadsides’ CYRANO at Oxford Playhouse
★★★★☆ Northern Broadsides are staging a new rendition of Edmond Rostand’s play, adapted by Debbie McAndrew, which may not entirely overcome that criticism, but is an admirable piece of work nonetheless....
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE at Oxford Playhouse
★★★☆☆ This production proved to be a pleasant surprise. The abridgment of the story was neatly done, the characters were true to the original, and the acting and singing were excellent. I could have watched Ben...
RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY at Oxford Playhouse
★★★★☆ The first act consists of Tangent, where the dancers enact the movement of the seasons to Jason Ridgway’s piano music. It’s no reflection of the skill of the dancers or the quality of Ridgway’s acc...
William Shakespeare’s LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (Abridged) at Oxford Playhouse
★★★★★ Most enthusiastic Shakespeare fans are familiar with The Reduced Shakespeare Company by this point. Their fast-paced skit-based pastiches of Shakespeare and other major literary figures have been deliver...
SILVER LINING at Oxford Playhouse
★★☆☆☆ Vera is raging outside, desperate to penetrate a residential care home. No, this is not a thriller. Vera is a storm that threatens to engulf the world that exists for five elderly ladies in Gravesend, a...
LET ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICE at Oxford Playhouse
The form of the evening was very much anecdotes about composers, royalty, or both, with appropriate musical interludes interspersed. Some were well known like Elgar (or Eljar, as Lanier spouts, disparagingly) and others ...
Sand in the Sandwiches at Oxford Playhouse
John Betjeman always feels like a safe pair of hands. His poems flow, seemingly classic in style, but then broken up by a little twist of humour. Sand in the Sandwiches echoes his poetry – nostalgic without being twee ...