Tuesday 10th June 2025

Culture

Review: All My Sons – ‘At the end of the American Dream’

Joe Keller, played by Tristan Hood, represents the American dream. He is a wealthy businessman with a traditional family with a surviving son that is about to marry. Like...

Review: The Tempest – ‘Power looks good on her’

All the guests arrived and promptly took their seats, as one of the directors...

Review: Bush! The Musical – ‘Is our actors singing?’

While the genre of historical musical theatre centred around US politicians may be dominated...

Review: So Far, So Good – ‘Counting down the fall’

Student theatre has always thrived on experimentation, collaboration, and the courage to speak up....

Dispatches: A meeting of minds, memories, and bad wine

Jem Bosatta explores a connection between memory and the senses

OxFilm: Oxford International Film Festival

Calum Bradshaw walks us through this year's Oxford International Film Festival

Warhol and the importance of social exchange

Mia Neafcy explores the notion of consumerism in American capitalist society

The humble notes that hold great meaning

Katherine Wood explores the past and present of Russian bard music

The comeback kids keep ‘lad rock’ alive

Kasabian's 'For Crying Out Loud' is the Leicester band at their best, says Matt Roller

Empty voices speak freely but not responsibly

Ethan Croft considers cultures of discussion within the Twitter-sphere

‘Generation Kill’ director Susanna White talks documentaries and Dickens

Calum Bradshaw reports on an evening with the acclaimed filmmaker behind a host of documentaries, feature films, and television series.

The Japanese House – “I’ve never wanted fame at all”

Ellen Peirson-Hagger interviews Amber Bain on her moody indie project

A titanic record for all the wrong reasons

Will Cowie finds Gorillaz's Humanz to be soulless and robotic

Take me to (Broad)church

Charles Britton takes a spoiler-filled look back at Chris Chibnall’s crime drama

Is television too small for the both of them?

Theo Davies-Lewis pits the BBC against streaming services

Asian actors are invisible in Hollywood

Vivien Zhu argues that change from studios and in racial attitudes is necessary to make progress on the under representation of Asian actors

A limp, lifeless insult to every single viewer

Christopher Goring is reduced to a gibbering mess by "Sandy Wexler"

American art at the cutting edge of the 21st century

Altair Brandon-Salmon explores two samples of recent art and their resonances

Exploring Hull and its high water

Julian Wood travels around Kingston-Upon-Hull and immerses himself in 2017's 'City of Culture'

“Fun, thoroughly amusing and worth watching”

Freya Thorpe praises Ambriel Productions’ musical ensemble

Acting out against commoditisation in art

Anoushka Kavanagh considers resistance to the shifting role of the consumer

A day in the life of… a lighting director

I came to Oxford with very little backstage experience. It’s really easy to get into the scene—TAFF (the University network of backstage crew) is...

“If you’d told me a year ago I would never have believed it”

Katie Sayer chats to Callum Cameron, the writer and star of They Built It, No One Came – coming to Oxford following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sell-out week in London

An odd mix of Sophocles, Stoppard and Wilde

Katie Sayer gives four stars to Simon Callow's revival of a 1970s classic

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