OXFORD PLAYHOUSE

by Stephi Wild - December 03, 2025

Award-winning comedian, star and creator of The Room Next Door Michael Spicer has announced a brand-new UK tour for 2026 with Hope All’s Well. Learn more here!...

by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 09, 2025

Shakespeare’s Globe has revealed the cast and creative team of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed for the first time in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Learn more!...

by Niamh Jones - October 08, 2025

We all know the names ‘Bletchley’ and ‘Alan Turing’, if only thanks to the 2014 film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code follows a similar trajectory, documenting Turing’s journey from school boy to death in a collection of non-chronological scenes. T...

by Stephi Wild - October 06, 2025

Oxford Playhouse has announced a bold new production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which will be staged as part of its spring 2026 season and directed by Playhouse Artistic Director, Mike Tweddle....

by Niamh Jones - October 02, 2025

Glamorous and mythic, the Mitford sisters often feel like untouchable figures of the past, central to the tumultuous politics of the interwar period and yet forgotten amidst the rollcall of far more significant names. They seem like the sorts of characters who would be impossible to bring to life, a...

by Stephi Wild - September 30, 2025

3 hearts canvas and Izzy Carney have announced the cast for Jessica Norman’s debut play This Little Earth. Imy Wyatt Corner will direct Fanta Barrie and Ross O’Donnellan. ...

by Stephi Wild - September 29, 2025

W Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife was written in 1926 and described as ‘a sparkling comedy of ill manners'. This wonderful new version of The Constant Wife is by Laura Wade, the Olivier Award winning writer of Home, I'm Darling,....

by Nicole Rosky - September 08, 2025

American Candy, a new comedy-crime play by Tom Murray and directed by Francesca Hsieh (I'm Sorry I'm Not Lucy Liu; Don't Call Me China Doll), will tour the UK from 8 September, including London, Oxford, Bedford, Bolton, Newcastle and Birmingham. The play’s producers, The Mango Ensemble, are finalist...

by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2025

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s most magical comedy of love, mischief and donkeys, comes roaring into Southwark Playhouse Borough this September in a production for anyone aged 8 – 88....

by A.A. Cristi - July 21, 2025

The Mango Ensemble, finalists for the 2025 National Diversity Awards, will launch a UK tour of American Candy, a new comedy-crime play by Tom Murray and directed by Francesca Hsieh. The production will tour cities including London, Oxford, Bedford, Bolton, Newcastle, and Birmingham starting 8 Septem...