Sunday 8th February 2026

Culture

The mysterious posters in Oxford, and the novel behind them

I had assumed it was just another poster, lost in the usual blur of student plays, society termcards, and talks promising free pizza. But this one was oddly specific.

Musical theatre and classic literature: A marriage of two minds?

Musical theatre owes a great debt to the literature of preceding centuries. Often, all we need is one idea to ignite a spark that leads to something greater.

Rich and generative: In conversation with ‘The Glass Menagerie’

After the success of The Creditors last Michaelmas, the Keble-based Crazy Child Productions is set to bring Williams’ breakout work to the Keble O’Reilly.

How not to decolonise a museum: ‘Suturing Wounds’ at the Pitt Rivers

Emma Heagney reviews Sara Sallam's exhibition at the Pitt Rivers and how the museum interacts with decolonisation.

When more is more

Carla Neuss is exhausted by the intensity of the love and the emotion of the money in Dennis Kelly’s 'Love and Money'

The Rudi awakening of dubstep

Laurence Osborn talks to Rudi Zygadlo about the producer’s status in and outside of dubstep music

Photo Blog – 6th week!

Term is well over halfway through, and our blog just keeps on getting better

Alternative India

Mandy Ahmed looks at India's New Wave cinema and why it's more than just a drop in the ocean

Bully for Bollywood

Abby Nira kicks off a Bollywood special with a review of what is arguably India's greatest film

National Treasure

Annabel James spends some quality time in the Ashmolean Print Room, one of Oxford’s hidden gems

An Elegynt Spectacle

Jamie Randall peers into the world of Ibsen

Cherwell Stage: why bother?

Taxi for A Streetcar Named Desire: Oliver Moody explains what it is that student critics do and why Cherwell previews plays

Review: Mansfield Open Mic Night

Josephine Sarchet heads with an open mind to Mansfield's open mic

Embrace your naked ambition

Rachel Coombes on how to get involved in Oxford’s art scene

Review: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

Joseph Lloyd understands Kanye West's vocals to be saying 'I was the abomination of Obama's nation'

The hype being heaped on Imogen Heap

Matthew Shribman talks to singer, songwriter, composer, conductor, filmmaker and earth-lover Imogen Heap

Review: Destabilise by Enter Shikari

Oliver Moody enters Shikari

The New Hollywood?

Olivia Hanson gives a first-hand view of Bollywood in India.

Cherwell photo blog – 5th Week (blues)

Beat the blues by checking out our incredible photo blog...

Armistice Day Blues

A review of the O'Reilly's 5th week show, Journey's End

Two people without a story?

William Hooper applauds everything about the BT’s latest new writing show ‘Just Two People’ - everything, that is, except the script

Hit me baby one more time

Oliver Moody is stupefied by a brilliant production of ‘Taking Care of Baby’

Let me out

Jane Brik-Nimby is bored by a pointless remake of a Swedish classic

Another year, another classic

Ben Kirby reviews Mike Leigh's new movie, Another Year, and is almost stunned into silence by the shock of the ordinary

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