Monday 16th February 2026

Culture

A bold choice for limited space: ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’

This ambitious take on a classic struggled in the space constraints of the Michael Pilch studio.

‘Fresh energy’: Corpus Christi’s Owlets on their revival

Abigail Lakeland interviewed Clara Woodhouse, Owlets President, to discuss its resurgence, and what audiences can expect.

From topping charts to ‘The Traitors’: An ode to Cat Burns

The chaotic new season of 'The Traitors' made me reflect on the celebrity version, and my personal favourite contestant, Cat Burns.

Spoonerisms and malapropisms: ‘You Got Me’ in review

Silent Tape Productions' 'You Got Me' is a hard-hitting story about memory, powerlessness, and the cyclical passing of time.

Interview: Peace

Luke Barratt talks shellfish, carpentry and the media with the Birmingham rockers

Spotlight on…The Trial

Evy Cavalla investigates a conceptual adaptation of Kafka's classic

Preview: The Glass Menagerie

Camilla Rees gets a taster of Tennessee Williams' classic

Ashurbanipal

Helen Reid talks to the writer and director of Trinity's most out-there production

Review: Love Is All You Need

This Danish rom-com is ripe with cliché, but lacks zest

Putting a new face to an old name

In trying to force the stage curtain to stay closed, you can inadvertently rip it down.

Some are more gender-equal than others

Sam Atwell examines George Orwell's chauvinism, and the women he loved and lost

Ashurbanipal: The Last Great Metalhead?

Joe Manktelow has a word with the creators of this student play's outlandish soundtrack

Jammin to… ‘Apricot’ by Basil Hogios

Antonia Whitton evangelizes about a fleeting moment of brilliance

Daft Punk in a funk

Sam Parsons is consumed with righteous anger at new single 'Get Lucky'

Preview: 1984

Tess Colley expects good things from this adaptation of Orwell's classic

Review: Life is a Dream

Laura Stacey finds sound jarring but performances strong in the Oxford Spanish Play

What are Wordsworth?

Sadie Levy Gale and Molly Brown experience 'performance poetry'

Hair-razing artwork

'Bold and Bald' A review of Adam Wozniak's Buster Renovatio.

Light-hearted Art

“Playing with shadows” A review of the Hayward Gallery's light show.

St. George’s Day playlist

Cherwell music get all patriotic with their latest offering...

Haven’t they Don well?

Ceri Fowler and Don Broco discuss everything from George Clooney to puppies...

Styles stays a-Float

Riaz Philips thinks this is a very inoffensive but listenable work...

We’re sick of Steve!

Jack Chown thinks that Steve has fallen into the 'Mumford and Sons trap' on his latest offering...

Review: The Book of Mormon

Frank Macpherson finds this show frankly boring

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