Monday, May 26, 2025

Culture

Anselm Kiefer: Early Works Review

I still remember the first time I saw Anselm Kiefer’s work. I was in...

Review: Suddenly Last Summer – ‘Cannibalism, love, and lobotomies’

This week at the Burton Taylor Studio, a new rendition of Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly...

Recorded theatre: the oxymoron of the prerecorded-live production

"Are we witnessing the downfall of the priority of ‘LIVE’ theatre?"

Review: What I learned from Johnny Bevan

Naomi Gee gets political with Luke Wright

Review: Noose

Beckie Rutherford is severely unimpressed by the BT's latest offering

Review: Heavy Petting

Matt Roberts loves it when the Revue pets him heavily

Live Jazz at the Mad Hatter

A JazzSoc evening leaves Sophie Jordan convinced that jazz is still alive

Goodbye Sir Terry

Daniel Minister looks back at the career of the late Sir Terry Wogan

Review: This World Lousy

Ben Ray is unimpressed with a show that lives up to its title

Review: pussyfooting

Lucy Clarke unpicks a show that attempts to perform the performance of gender

Review: RENT

Momina Mukhtar is entranced by this no-holds-barred production

Preview: Thark

Ben Ray is quite literally spirited away by this hilarious 1920s haunted house farce

Is This Art?: Empty Lot

With the definition of art increasingly unclear, the Cherwell Art & Books team are on a mission to decide what art is. This week Charlie Willis visits an actual art exhibition at an actual art gallery

A story of homecoming

Johnny Patterson looks at Rembrandt’s ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’

The endurance of the Queen of Crime

Charlie Atkins ponders what it is about Agatha Christie that we still love

Rewind: Peter Blake & Under Milk Wood

Ben Ray examines the psychedelic darkness of Peter Blake’s Under Milk Wood

Interview: Jon Ronson

Charlie Willis talks shame with the author and journalist Jon Ronson

JD Weaver: Changing perceptions

JD Weaver talks to Sophie Jordan about discrimination in the music industry

Is Pixar Just For Children?

Jack Schofield suggests Pixar is just as much for grown-ups

Review: Mystery Jets – Curve of the Earth

The indie stalwarts' latest release impresses Rushabh Haria

Wall Street Revisited

Tom Barrie feels more left-wing after watching 'The Big Short'

Daughter rocks to fuzzy guitar serenity

Ellen Peirson-Hagger watches the London indie trio descend into a hazy stage mist

Review: The Fastest Clock in the Universe

Beckie Rutherford finds this production a little too 'in-yer-face' for her taste

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