The entrance to the Burton Taylor

The Burton Taylor Studio ("The BT") is a 50-seater studio theatre owned by Oxford University. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the It is situated on Gloucester Street off Beaumont Street in Oxford, United Kingdom close to the Oxford Playhouse, a larger professional theatre, which manages the Burton Taylor Studio on behalf of the University. Beaumont Street is a street in the centre of Oxford, England. Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Oxford Playhouse (often just known as The Playhouse by locals is an independent theatre in Beaumont Street, Oxford, opposite the Ashmolean The theatre is named after Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 &ndash 5 August 1984 was a Welsh multiple award-winning Actor. Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award -winning English-American actress

It plays host to numerous, small-budget productions often starring Oxford students. Recent notable productions have included a staging of the play The Second Maiden's Tragedy, which some scholars consider to be Cardenio, a lost play by William Shakespeare. The Second Maiden's Tragedy is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript The History of Cardenio is a lost play, known to have been performed by the King's Men, a London theatre company in 1613 William Shakespeare ( baptised

See also

• New Theatre Oxford
• Old Fire Station Theatre
• Oxford Playhouse

External links

• Burton Taylor Studio