• An Evening of Dirty Dancing will take place at The Mill in Banbury this evening. The concert celebrates one of the most popular cult-pop films of the 20th century – it’s a singing and dancing extravaganza that features the likes of Do You Love Me, She’s Like The Wind, and iconic hit (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life. The show starts at 7.30pm, and tickets cost £17. Call 01295 279002.
  • For a play that’s both funny and emotionally challenging, check out The Knitting Circle at Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre tonight. Based on playwright Julie McNamara’s time running a women’s group in a 1980s asylum, this is a play dedicated to the forgotten voices of some remarkable women. Tickets cost £12. See pegasustheatre.org.uk or call 01865 812150.
  • An historic remix of black comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, will be brought to the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon by Abingdon Drama Club on Saturday and Sunday. The play is set in a courtroom somewhere between Heaven and Hell, where famous witnesses include Mother Theresa, Sigmund Freud, Pontius Pilate and Satan. Tickets cost £7 and can be bought from abingdon-drama-club.com
  • On Saturday at the Old Fire Station in Oxford, two short plays from Cambridge playwright Sean Lang emphasise the importance of speaking out when it matters. The Necessity of Atheism is a re-telling of a famous Oxford tale, in which the Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from University College for arguing the case for atheism. It’s followed by The Usual Incentive, where a manager with a London shipping company stumbles across exploit-ation in the Congo. A ticket for both plays costs £10. Visit theoldfire station. org.uk