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

Student theatre has always thrived on experimentation, collaboration, and the courage to speak up. So Far, So Good, a new piece of original writing by Melissa Chetata-Brooks, undoubtedly embraces...

Theatre Mercedes Haas -

The writer behind ‘The Writer’

Tucked away in a room at Worcester College, I sat in on a rehearsal...

Theatre Phoebe Davies -

Reframing Oxford’s controversial portraits

“All art is quite useless,” declared Oscar Wilde in the preface to The Picture...

Art Saskia Maini -

‘Love in the face of hate’: A closer look at ‘Blood Wedding’

Emma Nihill Alcorta is the director of a new adaptation of the Spanish masterpiece...

Theatre Emma Nihill Alcorta -

A book to tear you apart

Huw Fullerton reviews 'Unknown Pleasures'

Preview: The Aleph

Georgina Wilson is impressed by this tense, sci-fi play

Just monkeying around

Liam Steward-George on being a thesp after Oxford

‘The Bone Season’ book cover released

The cover of a book written by a St Anne's student has been released.

LiveFridays at the Ashmolean

New to the Ashmolean museum this year are the highly anticipated Live Friday events. Rolf Merchant went to see how the very first, 'An Evening With the Gods', unfolded

Review: A Theory of Justice: The Musical

Chloe Bond leaves this philosophical musical educated and entertained

Review: Bluebeard

Evy Cavalla highly recommends this thought-provoking and entertaining production

Review: They Will Be Red

Tess Colley enjoys a curious new play at the Burton Taylor

Lip-Syncing Reconsidered

Myles Karp examines this much maligned but exceedingly common practice

My Evening with the Gods

Ching Lee reviews the first of the Ashmolean's Live Friday programme

Photo Competition Winner – ‘Black and White’

Congratulations to Ieva Maniustye for her lovely Black and White snow scene

Festival Fun!

Martha Newson brings summer loving, from Mischief Festival, to a cold and wintry Oxford

Review: Christopher Owens – Lysandre

Ceri Fowler is charmed by Lysandre

Review: Everything Everything – Arc

Joshua Barfoot is underwhelmed by this sophomore release.

Who’s Afraid of Frightened Rabbit?

Marc Pacitti interviews the Scottish folk-rockers

Review: The Blackout – Start The Party

Isabel Stoppani de Berrie finds little to love in this car crash of a release.

If You Like… Radiohead

Katy Wright recommends soundtracks on the back of Oxford's finest band.

The Year in Fear

Cherwell Film and TV guides you through Horror of early 2013

Sheila Heti keeps it reel

Barbara Speed talks to Sheila Heti about recording her friends for fiction

Hands tied on Fifty Shades spin-off

Alexander Woolley looks at a mischievous prank on a fickle industry

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