Culture

A noble mind o’erthrown: ‘Hamlet’ at the National Theatre

This month, Hamlet returns to the stage in a new production soon to be released on National Theatre Live, following its staging last autumn.

Culture Beatrix Arnold -

Lighthouse Productions on ‘Lemons’

The team outlined the vision for their debut production: a political, surrealist piece of contemporary theatre.

Culture Abigail Lakeland -

In defence of the live-action remake

Live-action remakes, when viewed with an open mind, can be seen as cultural negotiations, as attempts to revitalise and pass down old stories to new eyes and ears.

Culture Willow Jopp -

‘Songs, skits, and a third thing beginning with S’: Jack McMinn in conversation

If there’s one thing I believe Oxford’s theatre scene is missing, it’s a button-down-shirt-wearing ex-zoology student with a penchant for writing songs about Pret A Manger.

Culture Rebecca Harper -

Review: Endgame

Keble O'Reilley, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: Richard III

OFS Studio, Tuesday - Saturday 4th week

Review: A Few Good Men

Oxford Playhouse, Wednesday - Saturday, 4th Week

All jazzed up and nowhere to go?

We take a look at what's on offer for the jazz connoisseur in Oxford

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Fo's best-known play receives four star treatment from Polar Bear Productions

First Night: The Last Train Out of Here

We take a first-night look at Helen McCabe's new play

Craig has Connery’s Crown in sight

Joshua Williams anticipates this season's biggest film event; Quantum of Solace.

Jose Parla – Cuban Graffiti

Jacob goddard looks at Jose Parla's debut graffiti show

Los Campesinos!- ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’

Alex Wilson reviews Los Campesinos' newest release

Genre Confused; Anticon

Andrew Littlejohn looks at the redeeming features of Anticon

Friday Night-Mare

Robert Holtom celebrates halloween with a scary movie marathon

Keane – Perfect Symmetry

Are Keane as cool as they'd like to be? We find out if their latest album measures up...

The Perlys – Yet Death will seize …

We review an album packed full of quacked-up, left-of-the-beat jiggy-pop.

Review: Wanted

Out now on DVD

Review: Ghost Town

In cinemas October 24

Too Cool for School?

As High School Musical 3 hits cinemas, we put Disney's most lucrative asset on trial

Exhibition Review: What is it like to be a bat?

Ovada

Exhibition Review: This house of books has no windows

Modern Art Oxford

Rushdie was robbed

Why was Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence left off the Booker Prize shortlist?

Blasphemy: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Each week Cherwell cuts a literary 'classic' down to size. This week: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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