Thursday 23rd April 2026

Culture

Does ‘Euphoria’ no longer speak to our generation?

Should I have been watching Euphoria’s first season as an innocent, bright-eyed 14-year-old? Probably not. At the time, I thought that the chaotic lives of the characters were what...

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by...

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.

Preview: Singin in the Rain

The eponymous downpour won't dampen Richard Birch's hopes for a great production

A Day In the Life

From essay crises to predrinks, Cherwell’s got you covered

Does the music move you, or does the music ‘move’?

Jake Downs explains the psychology of musical motion — every raver’s best friend.

Interview: Jack Savoretti

Bryony Harris chats to the folksy singer-songwriter.

Live Review: The Smyths

Andrew Dickinson reviews the cover band's recent Oxford show

Strangers: Just friends you haven’t met yet

Lonely freshers should take solace in the films of Coppola and Linklater

Milestones: Paris

This week, Fintan Calpin discusses Klapisch’s Paris, the zenith of cinematic homages to the French capital

Profile: Ingrid Betancourt

Mark Barclay explores the life of the Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt

Visions of Ooo: strange reflections of earth

Henry Bruce-Jones on Adevnture Time and how he learned to stop worrying and love nuclear fallout

Ruffian on the Stair

Mark Barclay is amused and appalled. Which is the right response?

A view from the Cheap Seat

2076. Two Brits at the Gates of Heaven.

Review: Hippolytus

Ben Thorne discusses the Oriel Greek Play: incest, mortality and everything in between

The Devil’s in the Details

Olivia Sung examines the gothic impulses of Marvel's recent TV venture

A View from the cheap seats

List of potential plays for MT15, notes

Magic Flute 2.0

Henner Petin indulges in a new production of an all-time classic

Michaelmas Highlights

All the latest gossip on what's hot on the Oxford stage this term

Review: The Ordinary Boys – The Ordinary Boys

Rachael Griffith finds something out of the ordinary with the group's latest album.

Live Review: The Japanese House

Sam Joyce shares his thoughts on the group's first ever show.

New frontiers: cashing in your microchips

Sam Joyce wonders how technological advances are changing the ways we consume media

How Newsnight lost its teeth

Faye Kneyham finds Evan Davis to be a poor Paxo-substitute

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