Thursday 5th March 2026

Culture

The Hollywood blockbuster and what it says about us

Why do ‘dad films’, once popular and even good, not seem to have the relevance they used to?

Confronting the future of art: ‘Responding to AI’ at Christ Church

‘Responding to AI’ an exhibition curated by Aniq Shamshi and Alice King, confronted the question of how artists perceive artificial intelligence directly.

Lighthouse Productions on ‘Things I Know To Be True’

Fresh from the success of their debut production, Lighthouse Productions are set to deliver their second show: Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to Be True (2016).

A masterclass in devising: ‘Noether’

This original play tells the story of the mathematician Emmy Noether and her struggles with the misogyny of her male peers against the backdrop of the rising Nazi state.

Dramatic Decorum and Interval Alcohol Etiquette

James Fennemore and Joshua Philips,the boys behind Brazen Cheek, cast their vote for the G&T

Welcome to the House of Play

Cherwell Stage on the history of Oxford’s most famous theatre

Press Preview: The Man Upstairs

John O'Connor enjoys, but remains unconvinced by, this piece of new writing.

Review: Craig Finn – Clear Heart, Full Eyes

Adam Piascik analyses the high and low points of Craig Finn's first solo album

Review: It’s a Hit

Fen Greatley is disappointed by It's a Hit's whistle stop tour through the musicals of the twentieth century

First night review: Celebration

Barbara Speed attends a darkly comic gathering

Review: M83, O2 Academy

Natasha Frost spends an evening listening to stadium pop in the swamp

Review: Top Girls

Edward Bell spends two and a bit hours completely absorbed in an accomplished performance of an era-defining play

Review: Latin! Or Tobacco and Boys

Charlotte Van Regenmortel is enchanted by a production that is perhaps more Greek than Latin

Review: Spamalot

James Fennemore hails the sheer silliness and stupidity of Spamalot, a musical that will make you 'rejoice to be alive'

Press Preview: Twelfth Night

Pollyanna Marsden calls the upcoming production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night a 'triumph'

Press Preview: The Hothouse

Angus Hawkins is enthralled at an open rehearsal for The Hothouse

Get ready for Latin! or Tobacco and Boys at the BT

Get excited. Zoe Apostolides from Latin! gives Cherwell the low-down on one of the first student productions of Hilary Term

The Hothouse – Actor’s Blog, Week 2

Hothouse lead Matt Gavan talks about his experience of Pinter and the Playhouse

Review: The Artist

Benjamin McEvoy paints us a picture of Michel Hazanavicius’ celebrated silent film

Review: Gonjasufi – MU.ZZ.LE

Adam Lebovits sings praises for the new Gonjasufi mini-LP

Review: The Maccabees – Given To The Wild

Sarah Poulten feels that the new Maccabees album is too manicured

A Bluffers’ Guide to: New Wave

Natasha Frost explores the finer points of the New Wave

Dancing to the beat of her own drum

Nicola Roberts to Natasha Frost talks about tribal patterns, head-fucks and the importance of being loose

‘More stars than there are in heaven!’

Amy Rollason relives Hollywood's Golden Age in the second installment of our Decades in Film feature: the 30s

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