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. 

Oxford Coffee Concerts

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.

Jubilate Chamber Choir

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Ensemble Mirage

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

A Talk with Benedict Allen

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

Is it better to be happy or free? 

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

Oxford Coffee Concerts  

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

Oxford Coffee Concerts

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.  

Pixels Ensemble

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? 

with Bojan Čičić & Instruments of Time & Truth 

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.

The East Oxford Community Choir & Orchestra with Ensemble Vocal Interlude (Grenoble)

The Choir of Merton College

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. 

SJE Arts Next Generation Series 2018 - Folklore

Consone String Quartet

Haydn: Nelson Mass & Handel: Dixit Dominus

In music full of vitality, colour and humour, Haydn evokes seasonal changes in nature and village life.

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

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018  

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018  

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018  

The Bull Hotel, Peterborough

Peterborough

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

SJE Arts Next Generation Series 2018 - Badinage

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven & Jeremy Thurlow

Oxford Coffee Concerts  

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….

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Oxford Coffee Concerts

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...

A multi-disciplinary presentation of three new works that stretch the synthetic possibilities of music and dance.

Endymion

Allegri String Quartet  

Oxford Coffee Concerts  

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

ANIMA showcase of film and animations

Crazy, colourful and chaotic circus fun...

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. 

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.  

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.

One Small Step is blasting off and touching down across Oxfordshire and across the country this summer.

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

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

Science & Music meet in creative harmony.

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Part of Oxford May Music 2018

Guest Artist Edmund Jones, violin

Musicians of the Dreaming Spires

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2

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. 

Part of the IAO Musical Festival 2018

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

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the Liveness, Hybridity & Noise series

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

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

Oxford Coffee Concerts

Part of the Music of the Spires Series

Part of the Music of the Spires Series

Part of the Music of the Spires Series

SJE Arts Next Generation Series 2018 - O Radiant Dawn

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

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Frith Piano Quartet

Shakespeare's Globe give you a choice of three shows, in Oxford's most inspiring venue...

Outdoor Performance at Wadham College Gardens

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

Jonathan Powell (piano)

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...

Part of the Cushion Concert Series.

Workshops for everyone aged 16+

OP's lunchtime theatre club for everyone aged 50+

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

Mozart Mendelssohn & Shostakovich

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

Oxford Coffee Concerts  

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-...

Pirates and parrots, murder and maps, treasure and treason . . . 

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

Oxford Coffee Concerts  

Part of the IAO Music Festival 2018

Part of the SJE International Piano Series 2018

Magpie Lane

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.

Aged 15 to 20? An aspiring playwright? Then this is the course for you...