Monday 3rd November 2025

Culture

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction. The long walk up to the Radcliffe Camera entrance, pushing the heavy door to enter...

Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

Every morning on my way to college, I pass through the cobblestoned, crowded St...

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

"poetry told across language through performance and music"

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

Valentine’s Day Special

Cherwell Music finds many, many songs suited to this special day

Review: Another Country

Alex Woolley reviews the second Playhouse show of the term

Review: You Maverick

Matt Parvin's latest play turns out to be enjoyable, if heavy-handed at times

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