Friday 21st November 2025

Culture

Witty, original and colourful: Tidal Theatre’s ‘Launa’

Tidal Theatre’s Launa (at the BT 18-22nd November) is exactly the kind of play that the student drama scene needs more of. It was original, witty, bold and colourful,...

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...

Week in Pictures (2)

This week, Amelia Cox shares moments captured during her trip to Holland - and there's not a windmill in sight

Week In Pictures (1)

Joseph Caruana goes back home to Malta to bring us some splendid colour and light

May Day, May Day!

Cherwell's photo team document this year's May Day mayhem

Review: Marcus Foster Live

Francesca Wade is impressed by the rock ballads of Robert Pattinson's best mate

Review: Ashmolean Late and Pots and Plays

Operas, poetry, audio plays and two very intense DJs - Rebecca Tatlow reports on one of her favourite nights out in a long time

Review: Call of the Wild

May Anderson reviews the much anticipated stage adaptation of Jack London's novel, Call of the Wild, and is far from disappointed

Entering the Cult of Beauty

Laetitia Weinstock spends a sensuous evening indulging her senses at the opening of the V&A's new exhibition

Review: Jenny Hval – Viscera

The Norwegian singer draws out highly eroticized soundscapes on her latest recording, writes Cherwell's Music Editor, En Liang Khong

Review: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

Thomas May explores Robin Pecknold's new depths on Fleet Foxes' sophomore outing

From Rags to Rubble

Rebecca Tatlow explores three different versions of a classic - Prokofiev’s Cinderella

Review: Nine Type’s of Light

Patrick Scott reviews TV On The Radio's latest musical offering

Review: Scream 4

Mark Shand reviews the Scream franchise's latest instalment

Big budgets, scanty scripts

Harry Tuffs reviews what is possibly Hollywood's worst offering since SATC 2

Review: Spurious

Tom Cutterham finds out it's still grim up North after reviewing Spurious, Lars Iyer's first novel derived from his blog of the same name

Heracles to Alexander the Great

Cherwell visits the Ashmolean's first major exhibition since its refurbishment

Interview: Portico Quartet

Cherwell catches up with saxophonist Jack Wylie and drummer Duncan Bellamy at their East London home

Review: Cardenio

Much to her surprise, Rebecca Tatlow thoroughly enjoys the recent reimagination of Shakespeare’s lost play put on as part of the RSC 50th Birthday Season at The Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon

Review: A C Grayling at the Oxford Literary Festival

Tian Yi Zheng reviews A. C. Grayling's visit to the Oxford Literary Festival where he talks about his new work, The Good Book: A Secular Bible

Etcetera announces competition winners

Cherwell's literary supplement, Etcetera, announces the winners of their first Freestyle Writing Competition

Review: ‘Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing’

Ella Sands reviews 'Initiate', the first anthology of work by graduates of Oxford's MSt in Creative Studies

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