Friday 14th November 2025

Culture

“You will kill my children!”: ‘A View from the Bridge’ reviewed

The stellar cast of Labyrinth Productions’ A View from the Bridge delivered a layered, spellbindingly emotional interpretation of a classic. Director Rosie Morgan-Males told Cherwell that she was inspired...

The caring individual: John le Carré at the Weston

At the back of the Weston Library, in a small room off to one...

‘Like the edge of a knife’: Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk brings his ‘Continuous Music’ to Oxford

Ukrainian pianist Lubomyr Melnyk took the stage in Magdalen College Chapel and the Holywell...

What does a Ruskin artist actually learn? A graduate’s perspective

Create, critique, repeat? Polina Kim interviewed recent John Ruskin MFA graduate Laura Limbourg about...

How Not to Write About Music

Marc Pacitti despairs at the current state of music journalism

Interview: Imogen Cooper

Katy Wright discusses Schubert with the concert pianist

Review: The Oxford University Orchestra

Marc Pacitti enjoys the best that Oxford has to offer.

Photo Competition Winner!

For the week 4 competition, 'Negative Space'

Good Morning Vietnam

Lauren Heathcote takes us from the northern mountains to the southern deltas of Vietnam

Alternative History of Hollywood

Amy Lewin takes a journey through the very early years of Tinseltown

Preview: You Maverick

Alexander Wilson enjoys Matt Parvin's most recent play

Preview: Bunny

Heather Young is impressed by this funny yet provocative monologue

Focus on… the Turl Street Arts Festival

Georgina Wilson talks to the organisers of this annual festival of arts

Preview: The Last Tutorial

Rose Courteau previews a production that makes no claim to subltety

Review: Dull Roots Spring Rain

An ambitious production that deserves to be seen

It’s going to be MAD

The directors of 5th weeks modern American drama (MAD) festival talk to Cherwell about what we can expect

Review: The Aleph

Reasonable acting cannot save this tedious script

Review: Patrick Wolf @ The Church of St. John the Evangelist

Brigitta Summers and Luke Barratt spend an unconventional evening in a church

Is the Revue back from the dead?

James Fennemore investigates signs of a resurrection in Oxford's comedy scene.

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Alexandra Sutton is thoroughly impressed by this controversial drama.

Once upon a time in Utah…

Nick Hilton looks ahead to the Sundance Festival, levelling the playing field for indie film

Review: Gags (Oxford Revue)

The Oxford Revue are back in town

Bueller… Bueller…

Amy Rollason twists and shouts for Hacked Off Film’s 80s cinematic experience.

Longing and Urbanity

Nadia Brent documents feelings of deep yearning for a life without limits

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