For anyone aged 12 to 16 years with a passion for theatre.

A theatre company for everyone aged 17 to 25

This is a company for anyone aged 40+ with an enthusiasm to explore classic and contemporary plays on their feet.

A tender and heartwarming tale of transatlantic friendship...

The Actor’s Nightmare follows George as he attempts to navigate his way through a dreamlike – or nightmarish – theatre. 

An enchanting story full of music, puppetry and one very special penguin.

An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers.

Sebastian Faulks' celebrated novel goes from page to stage...

Following her sell-out show in 2017, Bridget is back at OP...

A week-long workshop on finding your funny for 11 to 16s...

Confusions is a series of three short, interconnected plays about our shared desire for companionship

Following two critically-acclaimed West End runs, David Baddiel takes his Olivier-nominated one-man show to OP.... 

David O’Doherty is back on tour with a brand-new show.  

Following the huge success of Jack and the Beanstalk, join us for a pirate, pussycat and rat-packed panto party!

Aged 11 to 15 and want to be in this year's panto? 

Tightrope Productions serves up three darkly comic monologues set amongst the red tape and ruthless rivalry of an open-plan office.

Dare to experience the dangers and delights of dinosaur world in this interactive new show for all the family. 

Actress and singer Sarah Gabriel explores the fascinating and conflicted life of American writer and poet Dorothy Parker.

A two-day half-term workshop for 8 to 11s

The original sole men, Cornwall’s best-known musical export, the Fisherman’s Friends are heading back on the road.

The women are unnamed – instead, identified only by the colour of their clothing. 

Virtuoso jugglers + contemporary dancers = an adventurous and kaleidoscopic show...

This year’s Offbeat festival is bigger than ever. So big that we’re also putting on our own comedy club on the OP main stage.

These two recently discovered short plays by Tennessee Williams tell two very different stories about the extremes of love and desire.

Join comedian Deborah Frances-White for her comedy podcast, recorded in front of a live audience. 

Growing up is hard. Learning how to use a washing machine is harder.

Like a Virgin is a new play by student writer Sam Moore. A story of truths, first loves and the power od Madonna. 

Take an alcoholic priest. Add some battling brothers. Mix in an array of catholic figurines and you’ve got a recipe for disaster….

One of the most exciting and inventive Shakespeare productions of recent years.

Movie-based, laugh-filled improv from the people who brought you The Play That Goes Wrong...

Octopus is an anarchic new comedy presented by students from the University of Oxford

Offside is told through lyrical dialogue, poetry and punchy prose, placing the audience on the touchline of the game of a lifetime. 

OP joins forces with English Touring Theatre and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory for one of Shakespeare's greatest plays...

The University of Oxford's premier sketch comedy troupe returns to the Playhouse.

The Oxford Revue returns to the BT with their original sketch comedy.

One of Shakespeare’s strangest and most heartrending plays.

The talented young people of MCS Theatre Academy bring Barrie's magical story Peter Pan to Oxford Playhouse. 

A week-long workshop for 7 - 10s, based around this year's panto, Dick Whittington and His Cat

Three evenings of new drama, performed by Oxford Playhouse 12|16 and 17|25 Young Companies

Full of action and humour, balletLORENT‘s award-winning team are back with the beloved tale Rumpelstiltskin.

The multi-award-winning comedian and star of Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week and QI, takes her new show on tour.

Could this be the final curtain for the world’s greatest detective?

Musician, writer and broadcaster Neil Brand, (BBC’s The Film Programme, Sound of Cinema, Music that made the Movies) welcomes you to the world of earl...

Workshops for everyone aged 16+

OP's lunchtime theatre club for everyone aged 50+

A bold new revival of Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece...

Four terrific tales from Julia Donalson and Axel Scheffler...

Fizzing with limericks, razor-sharp wit, and parodies of Oscar Wilde, Travesties tells of political and artistic rebellion through the fractured reminiscences of a man on the side-...

A talk about all things Stoppard, with Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and Sos Eltis of the University of Oxford.

Held under arrest by a faceless authority, K. embarks on a journey to establish his supposed crime. 

After a record-breaking season at the West End (not to mention a similarly record-breaking run at the Playhouse in September 2017), The Wipers Times returns to Oxford.