Thursday 7th May 2026

Culture

Peacocks

Their grounds abut a large colonial on Staten Island: Five or six of them Swaggering along verdant lawns, Brick walkways, man-made ponds – Such bravado. What pretty boys! Pets of somebody, clearly. They preen each...

All in a day’s Work.txt: Metatheatre’s extremes

I first heard about Work.txt when I was asked by a friend (or coworker?) if I was free Saturday night. And this was a gilt-edged proposition I just couldn’t turn down.

What I learned from Tracey Emin about regeneration

CW: Abortion I left the Tate Modern’s latest headline show, Tracey Emin: A Second Life,...

In sickness, health, and wrongdoing: ‘The Drama’ in review

CW: Gun violence. “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” is the driving question of...

Review: The Cherry Orchard

Evie C. Ioannidi is pleasantly surprised at this Chekhov production

On your marks, get sets… watch!

Alexandra Sutton asks why the box set remains so popular in the age of the internet

Review: Black Mirror

Huw Fullerton thoroughly enjoys this neat sci-fi fable, the first episode of Brooker's new series

Review: This is 40

Not All It's Knocked Up To Be: Rehanna Jones-Boutaleb reckons this comedy is too meandering to even be entertaining

If you liked… Star of Love by Crystal Fighters

Luke Barratt gives you the summer in the middle of February

Going Underground

Nina Black takes a look at the tube's largest ever commission

Review: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away

Jack Chown admires the remarkable resilience of the ageing rocker

Review: Foals – Holy Fire

Gruffudd Owen enjoys Foals' firey baptism into a fresh sound

Interview: Stornoway

Jack Chown muses about music with Oxford's favourite zorbers

Interview: Rich Peppiatt

Alexia Millett talks to Rich Peppiatt, the man who made the Leveson Inquiry a laughing matter

Preview: Arcadia

St. Hilda's production of this difficult play looks promising

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

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