A Playhouse for Everyone

Bringing live performance, drama, dance, comedy to our stages in the heart of Oxford. We also work with over 15,000 young people a year through our young people's theatre company and community activities.

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Coming Up...

  1. 5 different coloured silhouettes of women can be seen with images and text visible within them.

    The Party Girls

    The sensational story of the Mitford sisters

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  2. Eddie Izzard: Hamlet

    An unforgettable theatrical experience

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  3. Side view of Alan Turing looking downwards in black and white with multi-coloured mathematical formulae and binary code overlaying.

    Breaking the Code

    Alan Turing's incredible life story

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Panto 2025: Dick Whittington

Join us for the tradition that is an Oxford Playhouse pantomime.

Board the bus to London Town for this riotous and uplifting tale of friendship, music, 90s cool and Britpop.

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LATEST NEWS...

  1. Playhouse Playmaker Announcement 2025/26

    17 September 2025

  2. A composite of actor's headshots, 'Dick Whittington' is written above them. The image has a purple background with different coloured stars scattered around.

    Cast & Creative Announced for Dick Whittington Pantomime!

    2 September 2025

  3. A group of people sit on a wall having their photo taken. There is a green lawn behind them and trees in front of a brick wall of a Manor House

    New play about Oxfordshire’s Mitford sisters to be staged at The Playhouse

    27 August 2025

  4. Group of Playmaker Later participants from 2025 standing in the lobby of Oxford Playhouse

    Announcing Playmaker Later

    31 July 2025

  5. Playhouse Adult Company End of Term Performance

    23 July 2025

  6. Cast announced for Breaking the Code

    22 July 2025

  7. A child in a white linen shirt looking directly at the camera in the middle of a wintery forest with pines covered in snow.

    Headlong and Shakespeare's Globe stage A Midsummer Night's Dream

    17 July 2025

  8. Coming up at Oxford Playhouse: Autumn 2025

    9 July 2025

  9. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Mike Tweddle

    26 September 2025

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