Saturday 16th August 2025

Culture

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine, Melbourne, rocks up to London in 1980, writes 'wear makeup everyday' on his New Year's...
Art Ava Doherty -

St Anne’s goes All-Steinway: A purposeful and bold commitment to music

In a move that lives up to its motto of ‘Consulto et Audacter’ (purposefully...
Culture Miriam Hussain -

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...
Culture Radhika Bhargava -

Reading Oxford books in Oxford

For those who have not even set foot in Oxford, the city still lives...
Books Ngoc Diep -
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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

Preview: Antigone

Georgina Wilson find this tragedy slightly lacking in bite

Preview: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Georgina Wilson laughs and cries at this BT production

Preview: The Merchant of Venice

Nicholas Crossland is impressed this Corpus Owlets' production

Focus on…The Old Fire Station

Alexander Woolley talks to Artistic Director Jeremy Spafford

"Film-making: it’s just mucking about really!"

Sophie Hall-Luke talks to President of the Oxford University Film Foundation, Tom Shennan, about making films and this year's festival.

Review: Flight

Denzel Washington is flying high and not-so-dry in this 'extremely fun drama'.

Hughes-d and abused

Emily Hislop asks whether Rom-Com(-Vom) makers using Hughes in their films have ever really watched them

Are movies trailing in the dust?

Huw Fullerton takes a look at the rise of the trailer and the fall of film.

Preview: ROPE

Eleanor Halls enjoys this Oxford-based play
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