Monday 24th November 2025

Culture

‘An evening of refined fun’: ‘An Ideal Husband’ reviewed

An Ideal Husband is a guaranteed evening of refined fun. Carfax Productions’ take on Wilde’s classic play is charming and does the text’s wittiness justice. But don’t be deceived...

An architectural tour of the Schwarzman

The product of a controversial £150 million donation, the new Schwarzman building is a...

One of the most urgent films of the year: ‘Urchin’ review

There are few films which have the power to change how you interact day-to-day...

A Sunday in the Park with Marianne.

She wears no rings. Her ears are double-pierced, hanging with astrolabes and star-studded. She...

First Night Review: Closet Land

Jenni Cutting discovers the BT ain't no Narnia this week

My, Fair Play!-dy

Andrew McCormack can't say fairer than that, with the Queen's Garden Play

Photo Blog – 6th Week

It's already 6th Week, here's what it looks like*

What Makes A Classic: Magnolia

Beau Woodbury on Paul Thomas Anderson's modern masterpiece

A funny type of attraction

Rafaella Marcus on why even the most unfortunate -looking of comics can send the girls swooning

Review: Iris Murdoch, a writer at war

Helena Bennett finds that students haven’t changed much in 70 years - but the world around them has

Review: Closet Land

What happens when Enid Blyton meets Orwell's Big Brother?

Review: Rent

Andrew McCormack catches up with the first instalment of this month's rent.

Remainders of a revolution

The Time that Remains: Quietly thought-provoking. Sometimes a little too quiet.

The magic motion man

Jane-Marie Saldanha speaks with Adam Elliot, independent animator extraordinaire

The college dropouts

Alex Dudok de Wit talks to Foals keyboardist and Oxford abscondee Edwin Congreave

First Night Review: Much Ado About Nothing

Will Granger thinks there's plenty to say about this something.

First Night Review: No Exit

Max Marenbon checks in, and checks out Sartre's classic at the Frewin Undercroft

Online Review – Fourtissimo

A new comedy of modern manhood hits the BT next week. Will it stick?

Online Review – Dangerous Liaisons

Ice-cold trysting at Trinity in a superb garden play

A Lovely Labour, Well Found

Andrew McCormack picnics with Shakespeare and St. John's Mummers

‘5th WEEK’ – Cherwell’s famous Photo Blog

Beat those blues with brilliant photography from around Oxford

Preview: Magdalen Film Society Screenings

A preview of In the Realm of the Senses & The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover

Online Review: Bad Lieutenant

Deranged and brilliant says Benjamin Kirby

First Night Review: Measure for Measure

Alisha Patel condemns not the fault, nor the actors in this triumphant production.

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