Friday 21st November 2025

Culture

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church concert is exactly what you need this Oxmas

Little Kitchen, an Oxford-based music collective, will be performing in Christchurch this Thursday. It's the perfect Oxmas treat.

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for...

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Settling the Score

Christy Edwall talks with Dario Marianelli about the art of composition

A Bluffer’s Guide to: The New Wave of Hip Hop

Matt Jones walks you through some of the biggest names in the latest resurgence of US hip hop

Album Review: Europe – Allo Darlin’

Tom Hoskins finds that Allo Darlin' balances pain with euphoria to good effect

Review: The Tempest, Magdalen

Constantine Fraser laments the rain, as a high-spirited production of The Tempest is forced inside

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Brasenose

Rosalee Edwards feels the fourth wall slipping away in front of her in this enthralling production

Review: Court, BT Studio Theatre

Tommo Fowler is instructed to call this piece of new writing 'meta theatre; mental theatre'

Review: Oxford Folk Weekend

Susan Yu finds Oxford Folk Weekend to be on good form

Preview: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Angus Hawkins highly recommends this outstanding production

Welcome to Wadstock

Cherwell spends the weekend at Oxford's favourite festival

Seeing a man about a dog

Christy Edwall speaks to author Mark Haddon about what comes after a bestseller

Oxford Oddities #3 – Univ

Viccy Ibbett explores the history of our colleges to discover eccentric artistic personalities, delving into Univ's past

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Anton Chekhov

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the Russian literary genius

May the Norse be with you

Rosalee Edwards defends our idiosyncratic Old English module from its critics

Preview: The Soldier’s Tale

Rosalee Edwards' expectations are exceeded by this devilish dance piece

Not so swinging sixties

Adam Whiley finds fault with an autobiography that is doesn't live up to it's promises.

Hey There Delilah

Patrick Scott talks to Delilah about beginning her solo career and putting together her debut album

Review: Demons’ Land

Nick Morgan is brought into a new theatrical world, in which Spenser's most famous work is adapted to great effect

Preview: The Penal Colony

Kuba Stawiski leaves this preview brimming with enthusiasm for this forthcoming adaptation of Kafka's short shorty

Review: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Finola Austin is impressed by Barbarian Productions' bounding enthusiasm in this early Shakespearean comedy

Preview: Blithe Spirit

Emily Troup enjoys Blithe Spirit, albeit with some misgivings

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