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Dine Hard: Old Parsonage

Parents coming to town? You could do worse.

Last orders: Hertford bar to be privatised

Students outraged at SCR secrecy during decision-making process

First Night: The Oxford Revue and Friends

Verdict: A more-than-alright revue.

Scholarship ‘severely tainted’ by Nazi past

Oxford to review links to Alfred Toepfer foundation in light of newly published findings.

Oxford blue as Cambridge come from behind to win Boat Race

Oxford University Boat Club have had their hopes of a Boat Race hat-trick denied today.

Kinky elected Union President

Librarian and ex-Treasurer voted in

Interview: Jennifer Pike

What's it like to balance your time between a degree and a professional touring career? Cherwell finds out

Fool’s Gold

Our reviewer regrets dressing up for this interactive review

Berlin Philharmonic visits Oxford

Berlin Philharmonic set to visit Oxford in May.

ITV2 sex-up Oxbridge

A new drama series, set in a fictional college of an ancient English university, has hit British television screens.

Review: An Uncivil Partnership

a rather civil production

Off the Wall and into the theatre

Harry Phillips visits the exciting North Wall Arts Centre in Summertown

Review: The Little Mermaid

Cherwell takes a dip into a dark adaptation of the classic.

Review: Twelfth Night

Harry Phillips looks ahead to 'Shakespeare week' with a review of the classic cross-dressing comedy.

Review: His Dark Materials

The long awaited arrival of the stage version of Pullman's masterpiece proves a delight

King Lear

Harry Phillips reviews an "18-rated Shakesperean soap opera"

The grass is always greener…

Harry Phillips gets misty eyed extolling the virtues of theatre out on the lawns this summer.

Confusions

Dialogue isn't the only thing that's funny about this Aykbourn play

Black Comedy

This production of Black Comedy illuminates Shaffer's script

Neighbourhood Watch: Crime doesn’t pay

When stage comedy goes wrong.
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