Oxford PLAYHOUSE

★★★☆☆  Napoli, Brooklyn tells a story of an Italian-American immigrant family living in Brooklyn in the 1960s. The mother, Luda, is trying to bring up three daughters – Francesca, Tina, and Vita – with lov...

★★★☆☆  The shadow of the film looms large and is a hard act to follow even 25 years on. There is so much in this piece that is unsaid which is hard to convey onstage. However, this was a good ensemble performa...

★★★★★ This play from Frantic Assembly combines the stories of soldiers from 1918, 2013 and 2026, united by the fact that they are all coming home to Scarborough. ...

★★★★☆ This is the story of escaped criminal, Mitch Ruscitti, and his attempt to steal a priceless diamond from a bank in Minneapolis, the town where ‘everyone’s a crook’. He enlists the help of hapless p...

★★★★★ Dick Whittington is a gift to a pantomime writer when the main character's name has certain connotations and every mention gets a laugh. But Steve Marmion, the writer and director, also cleverly includes ...

★★★★☆ This is a joyous, bawdy romp which tackles some pretty unsavoury subjects. Blood is not always thicker than water and here, theatre often makes up for family dysfunction. Rice has put together a great e...

★★★★☆ Mathew Kelly is superb as Auden, suitably seedy, world weary and outrageous, with a penchant for rent boys. David Yelland's Britten is beautifully clipped and uptight, only relaxing when accompanying youn...

★★★☆☆ In many ways, this is a good play. The dialogue is sharp. The actors are given nowhere to hide – both are on stage and facing the audience for the length of the performance; there are few props and the...

★★★★★ The stars are Helene Hanff, played by Stefanie Powers and Frank Doel, played by Clive Francis. Hanff is a brusque, kind New Yorker – ‘a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books’ – who pref...

★★★★☆ We are introduced to the play by Peter Quince, the leader of the Mechanicals, who gives us a rundown of the play, pointing out any similarities to our contemporary lives (‘it’s set in Ancient Greece â...

★★★★★ Pericles, by William Shakespeare (and George Wilkins) is a play about a man on a journey. He finds love and new kingdoms, loses them and finally is reunited with them again. A lot of the action takes pl...

★★★★☆ 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...