Oxford Theatres

A 50-seat black-box studio on Gloucester Street, named after Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor's donation, programmed by OUDS and the Playhouse with the cheapest serious theatre tickets in Oxford.

Opened in 1748 on a quiet lane behind New College, the Holywell Music Room is widely cited as the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Europe — and it still hosts weekly recitals.

The 1933 art-deco rebuild of an 1836 George Street theatre — Oxford's main commercial stage for West End musicals, pantomime and big-name tours, run by ATG since 2009.

Oxford's leading producing theatre — founded 1923, in its Beaumont Street home since 1938, a Grade II* art-deco auditorium of around 660 seats programming new writing, dance and family work.

East Oxford's theatre for children and young people, on Magdalen Road off the Cowley Road — workshops, youth companies, and a year-round performance programme aimed at under-25s.

An 1894 fire station on George Street, reopened as an arts centre in 2011 — theatre, comedy, exhibitions and a café-bar — sharing the building with homelessness charity Crisis.