Thursday 6th November 2025

Culture

Sin and nectar: Behind the scenes of ‘Women Beware Women’

I arrived at a rehearsal of Women Beware Women and found Hippolito (Kit Parsons) and Isabella (Céline Mathilda), uncle and niece, embracing and sharing an incestous kiss flavoured by...

Well-managed complexity: ‘In Praise of Love’ 

In Praise of Love by Terence Rattigan was a play well-chosen in today’s political...

Fashion around Oxford – Iggy Clarke

Iggy Clarke, the president of the 2025 Oxford Fashion Gala, shares her style secrets and where she’s shopping right now.

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction....

The Lives of Others

Jessica Goodman's skilful street photography captures the lives of others in just one click

One lucky bastard

Christy Edwall hears Tom Stoppard at the Sheldonian discuss the role of the artist

Review: Les Précieuses ridicules

Helen Tatlow passes a whimsical hour at Moliere's comedy of manners

And the rest is art history

Cherwell talks to art critic and Christ Church alumnus Andrew Graham-Dixon

Joe Cornish: Chip off the old block

Cherwell speaks to first-time director Joe Cornish about his film Attack the Block

Painting the moment

Cherwell meets painter Clova Stuart-Hamilton to discuss Oxford Art Weeks, painting Calpol, and ‘in the moment-ness’

A right repentant madam

May Anderson is entertained by The City Madam

Review: Smother

Wild Beasts return with a cleaner, more atmospheric album

Papa Loach… and son

Cherwell takes a look at Ken Loach in the wake of the directorial debut of his son, Jim

Review: The Rover

Fiamma Mazzocchi Alemanni is wooed by Restoration comedy, The Rover

Review: She Was Yellow

May Anderson is provoked by a five-star production of a stunning piece of new writing

Review: Beastly

This revisiting of Beauty and the Beast set in high school makes The Twilight Saga look like a masterpiece

Review: The Miners’ Hymns

Jóhann Jóhannsson delivers an avant-garde concept album inspired by the miners of North East England

The Icelander at the coalface

En Liang Khong talks to Jóhann Jóhannsson about failed utopias and his new album, The Miners’ Hymns

Review: DNA

This play about a group of teenagers trying to escape the consequences of their actions is put on as part of Catz Arts Week, 25-28 May

Review: Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet's tale of capitalism and its vices is on at Keble O’Reilly, 25-28 May

Review: The Government Inspector

May Anderson is delighted by a farcical piece of outdoor theatre

Derelict in Menfi

Will Granger captures the atmosphere of a derelict Menfi in Sicily

Week In Pictures (3)

Kathleen Bloomfield captures Oxford's beautiful countryside

Review: Mona & Bea

Rosalind Stone applauds the innovation of Tim Keily's new play

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