[3] Don Chapman also provided a comprehensive study of the theatre in the 2008 book, Oxford Playhouse: High and Low Drama in a University City.

Actors who have appeared on the stage at the Playhouse include Rowan Atkinson, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Ian McDiarmid, Ian McKellen, Dudley Moore, and Maggie Smith.

Susannah York gave her final stage performance there in August 2010, in Ronald Harwood's Quartet.

The journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens worked as a stagehand at the Playhouse during his time as an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford.

[8] A charitable trust runs the Playhouse as a theatre for the local community, through a professional management and direction team.