Founded in the 1920s, Oxford Playhouse is a busy theatre just opposite the Ashmolean Museum. Famous faces such as Judi Dench, Rowan Atkinson, Emilia Fox and Ian McKellen have performed onstage there, though the theatre perhaps surprisingly claims the 1966 Oxford University Dramatic Society’s Doctor Faustus as its most famous production. Alongside the students it starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, then the highest paid star in the world, both fulfilling Burton’s promise to return to his alma mater to tread the boards at the Playhouse once more.

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Theatregoers often combine their visit with dinner at:

• The White Rabbit
• Cote Brasserie – Oxford
• Franco Manca Oxford

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