Thursday, May 15, 2025

Culture

Review: As You Like It – ‘What’s not to like?’

At last, the sun is coming out to play, and the Mansfield Players’ staging of As You Like It has given this summer’s outdoor theatre season a merry welcome....

From cloisters to concrete: Oxford’s architectural evolution

As a proud member of one of Oxford’s younger colleges – one that didn’t...

Adolescence: Can TV spark radical change in young men?

Adolescence is just another example of art acting as a conversation piece. The recent...

Hand over Heart

"So bite the heel that walked you home in the rain"

Focus on… the New Writing Festival

Tess Colley talks to writers and directors from OUDS' annual festival

Preview: The Cherry Orchard

JY Hoh is impressed at a thoughtful and precise staging of The Cherry Orchard

Schwitter and Degenerate Art

“A fascinating exploration of an interesting artist”

Preview: The Laramie Project

Will Obeney is impressed by this piece of verbatim theatre

Preview: Princess Ida

Evie C. Ioannidi enjoys this quaint production

Walls of Jericho

A walk through Jericho on a sunny February afternoon

Jenny Saville’s brutal bodies

Siobhan Fenton praises the work of the Oxford-based artist, said to be ‘the heir to Lucian Freud’

Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Some excellent acting marred by a lack of polish

Review: Antigone

Tess Colley is not convinced by this modern adaption of a Greek Tragedy

Review: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

An enjoyable production, if lacking polish

Review: The Play’s the Thing

Camilla Rees cries in laughter at this improvised Shakespeare

If you liked… good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar

Christopher Spaide sends you back to school

Interview: Bastille

Luke Barratt talks David Lynch and support touring with Dan Smith

Review: Eels – Wonderful, Glorious

Charlotte McLean sees Eels strike up a new tone

Review: My Bloody Valentine – m b v

George King is blown away by this triumphant comeback from the kings of shoegaze

Review: ROPE

Kezia Lock enjoys this good but not outstanding production

Diaries from a Catty production team

Cherwell Stage gets the inside scoop from the cast and crew of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

Photo Competition Winner – ‘Faces’

Congratulations to Camille, winner of our 5th week photo competition!

Journey to Jordan

Chloe Cornish shares her travels through an incredible desert kingdom

Preview: The Play’s the Thing

Darya Shchepanovska is impressed by this Improvised Shakespeare

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