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.
The Beekeeper of Aleppo brings Christy Lefteri’s bestselling novel to the stage—a moving story of love, loss, and hope amid war, adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler.
The Torpids is a bumping boat race in Oxford that takes place annually around the 7th week of Hilary Term (around the start of March) on four successive days from Wednesday to Saturday.
Box Tale Soup presents a powerful new adaptation of Orwell’s 1984, using inventive puppetry to explore surveillance, control and rebellion, with voices from Sophie Aldred, Joanna Lumley and Simon Russell Beale as Big Brother.
Banbury Cross Players bring Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’s hit comedy to Banbury, as pilot Jack Absolute returns from battle in 1940 to win love, chaos ensues and romance takes flight.
Russell Hicks returns with This Time It’s Personal, a new standup show reflecting on his life and career, blending sharp observations, humour and storytelling.
Ross Noble is the Wizard of Waffle, The Rambler Royale, The Noodlers’ Noodler, and he’s back live on stage to tour a tornado of tangents.