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‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen...

Culture Nicole Palka -

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

Art Sofia O'Casey -

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Culture Rebecca Harper -

Beyond the binary: Leigh Bowery’s radical individuality

Tate Modern's "Leigh Bowery!" refuses easy categorisation—much like its subject A fashion student from Sunshine,...

Art Ava Doherty -

Laura Marling: always a woman

Ellen Peirson-Hagger delves into the folk singer’s most recent explorations of love and identity on her new album Semper Femina

“Krapp isn’t quite of this world”

Sian Bayley is finds chills and thrills in this production's take on Beckett's exploration of failure

Review: The Optimists

Suzy Cripps’ The Optimists, a tightly-paced romp of hypocrisy, coincidence and curtains, is a solid comedy of errors in the best of British tradition. Involving...

Both disturbing and utterly engaging: Suddenly Last Summer

With the tagline, “Something unspeakable happened last summer”, you might be forgiven for thinking of Aunt Ada Doom’s (Cold Comfort Farm) cry of “I...

A word from the stalls

Miriam Nemmaoui receives mixed feedback from an audience member after Suddenly Last Summer

Through the Looking Glass: the Auden set

Daniel Villar explores the perils of collaboration for Auden, Day-Lewis, Spender and MacNeice

Writing the uncanny and the lyrical

Tilly Nevin reviews Gillian Cross and Daisy Johnson in conversation

An injection of life and joy in the dark

Romilly Mavin is energised by Two Door Cinema Club's electrifying performance at Alexandra Palace

Walking in someone else’s shoes

Alice Robinson suggests that role-swapping in theatre helps to foster empathy

What to watch in the time of Trump

Tilly Nevin praises a new generation of political comedy in a ‘post-truth’ era

Two lonely people, one heartrending production

Bessie Yuill promises an intense evening of Beckett made accessible to all

Society divided: Dickens and revolution

Ethan Croft considers the politics of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities

The Coen brothers: a dynamic directing duo

Jack Allsopp argues that we should stop thinking of the director solely in the singular

The Winning Shots

Results of the portrait photography competition are in! Was your photo selected? Check out our best submissions here

Old&New: The potential of oranges

Sydney Gagliano reflects on the question of modern art’s accessibility

Rag’n’Moan Man: human after all?

Dom Saad serves up a post-mortem for Rag’n’Bone Man’s "Human"

The winter’s dead, long live the Spring King

Ellen Peirson-Hagger’s ears are left ringing after a noise-fuelled night from a trilogy of bands at the Bullingdon

Spotlight: Bad Sounds

Will Cowie on new band of the week, Bad Sounds

Single of the week: Katy Perry’s ‘Chained 2 the Rhythm’

Natalia Bus discusses the latest Katy Perry release

Review: The Homecoming

After the play finished, a few good friends walked towards me. “Wait, so what happened?” My friend Alex’s facial muscles were contorted. “What the...

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