Images of Authority: Portraits Between Iran and Europe
This free exhibition explores the portraits of three rulers – Fath Ali Shah Qajar, King George III, and Napoleon Bonaparte – revealing how art conveyed their authority, ambition, and personality
This free exhibition explores the portraits of three rulers – Fath Ali Shah Qajar, King George III, and Napoleon Bonaparte – revealing how art conveyed their authority, ambition, and personality
This exhibition at the Ashmolean showcases Pat Suet-Bik Hui and the tradition of the ‘three perfections’, blending poetry, calligraphy, and painting across centuries.
The Drawing Project brings together sixteen artists who collaboratively reinterpret two Ashmolean masterpieces through large-scale drawings. Created over eight months, the exhibition features full-size assembled works alongside additional responses, plus inspiring workshops for families and adults.
Oxford Playhouse stages Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a fierce and darkly comic masterpiece. Directed by Mike Tweddle, this explosive drama explores marriage, power and illusion through one unforgettable night between two couples.
Harry Baker brings warmth, humour and poetic wonder to the chaos of new parenthood in Tender. Featuring poems from the first hundred days of new life, this uplifting show blends laughter, vulnerability and trademark wit, with a few much-loved non-baby favourites along the way.
Artist Peter Keegan returns to Aylesbury Waterside Theatre to lead intimate acrylic painting workshops, offering hands-on tuition, materials, and a tour of his residency artworks.
Experience the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra live at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre with cellist Sterling Elliot, performing Dvořák, Elgar, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 under conductor Kevin John Edusei.
The main work in this very tuneful concert is Dvořák’s ever-popular Cello Concerto, with talented cellist Joshua Lynch.
Luther Live & Velvet Voices is a high-energy celebration of the golden era of R’n’B, bringing the timeless music of Luther Vandross, Alexander O’Neal and other soul legends to life with powerhouse vocals, a live band and unforgettable grooves from the 80s and 90s.
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