Thursday 20th November 2025

Culture

Little Kitchen’s Christ Church Cathedral 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...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Oxford Union Ball: From Russia with Love

Last Friday's James Bond themed Union Ball was double 0 Heaven...

Oxford University Orchestra (Benjamin Wallfisch)

Our classical music reviwer was impressed at the Sheldonian Theatre on 19th February

Photo Blog: Part VI

A sideways glance at life in Oxford...

Moments snatched in a life of touch and go

James Wright follows Jan Morris' new book 'Contact!' across a whole lifetime and half the known world

Landy’s ‘Art Bin’. Trash or Treat?

Sam Pilgrim ponders whether chucking away works of art can genuinely be considered, erm, art

Review: IMPerium

Elizabeth Biggs finds the Imps far from imperious

Review: Three Sisters

Perhaps take a rain check(ov)

Review: Samson Agonistes

Atmospheric surroundings pardon the flaws in this production

Review: Heligoland

Worth waiting seven years for? Probably, says Jane-Marie Saldanha

Review: ‘To The Rest of the World’ by Trail

James Andrewes is largley unimpressed by this unoriginal effort

15 years since

In our regular column, we take a look at the impact of Maxinquaye by Tricky

In praise of Evensong

James Maloney examines one of Oxford's great musical institutions

Ayck-born for the stage

Olivia Hanson talks to the playwright about his life's "fortunate series of events"

Haiti benefit concert: watch online from 20th February onwards

Berliner Philharmoniker (Sir Simon Rattle/Mitsuko Uchida)

Courtney Love speaks at the Union

The controversial Courtney Love talks depression, commericalism and dealing with life after Cobain

First Night Review: The Invention of Love

An ambitious but flawed production.

First Night Review: Blithe Spirit

Rozina Bashir on the first night of Coward's supernatural farce

Win tickets to see Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s MICMACS

A unique opportunity for Cherwell readers

Review: The Lovely Bones

Sophie Adelman picks over the bones of a lacklustre adaptation

The Empire strikes back, or just a clone war?

The sub-par and the sublime in two London subcontinent shows

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