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...

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    A View from the Bridge

    Arthur Miller's masterpiece

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  2. The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture: Philip Ball

    Beyond Weird: One Hundred Years of Quantum Mechanics

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  3. Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden's Wassail

    A seasonal treat

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Panto 2025: Dick Whittington

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

Crafty brothers Liam and Noel Rattagher are conjuring a masterplan to take over the world by making everything bland! Can our hero, Dick Whittington, stop them and keep Britannia cool? Maybe, with help from a magical cat and a gang of unlikely sidekicks.

Get ready for a feel-good tale of friendship and laughter, packed with panto sparkle, vibrant Britpop and 90s cool.

Written and directed by Toby Hulse and created by the award-winning team behind Sleeping Beauty and Jack & The Beanstalk – it’s the perfect treat for everyone aged 5–105!

It’s going to be rat-tastic!

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LATEST NEWS...

  1. Meet the stars of Dick Whittington!

    31 October 2025

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

    26 September 2025

  3. Playhouse Playmaker Announcement 2025/26

    17 September 2025

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    Cast & Creative Announced for Dick Whittington Pantomime!

    2 September 2025

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

    Announcing Playmaker Later

    31 July 2025

  6. Playhouse Adult Company End of Term Performance

    23 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. Father Christmas returns to the Burton Taylor Studio!

    5 November 2025

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