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Review: 113 – ‘An elusive, intangible, and shifting reality’

When I entered the Burton Taylor Studio to the sound of a mildly haunting cover of Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’, the whispered-yet-screechy vocals verging on the absurdly comic, I...
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A ‘Closer’ look at intimacy in Labyrinth’s new production

Labyrinth Production’s upcoming production of Patrick Marber’s Closer is a novel step up in...
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Review: Cyrano de Bergerac – ‘A clever adaptation of a timeless play’

I’m ashamed to admit I almost mistake Cuigy (Kate Burke) and Brissaille (Nancy Gittus)...
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Why reading for pleasure still matters at Oxford

The idea of students reading for pleasure during term time has sparked much debate....
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Hey There Delilah

Patrick Scott talks to Delilah about beginning her solo career and putting together her debut album

Review: Demons’ Land

Nick Morgan is brought into a new theatrical world, in which Spenser's most famous work is adapted to great effect

Preview: The Penal Colony

Kuba Stawiski leaves this preview brimming with enthusiasm for this forthcoming adaptation of Kafka's short shorty

Review: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Finola Austin is impressed by Barbarian Productions' bounding enthusiasm in this early Shakespearean comedy

Preview: Blithe Spirit

Emily Troup enjoys Blithe Spirit, albeit with some misgivings

Preview: A Doll’s House

Dull or droll? Marc Pacitti takes an advance look at A Doll's House

Preview: Tamings

Bria Thomas and Ruby Riley talk to the directors and some cast members of 'Tamings', a show on at the Keble O'Reilly in 3rd week.

Review: Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Crown and Treaty

Marc Pacitti finds Sweet Billy Pilgrim caught in the void between critical acclaim and commercial success

Review: Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Maps

Susan Yu finds Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly to be playing it safe and failing to add anything new to his sound

Preview: Two Gentlemen of Verona

Pollyanna Marsden looks forward to this fun production, set to play in Christ Church Cathedral gardens this week

Gold-standard Bronzes

Review of the Ashmolean's Olympics inspired exhibition of sculptures

Review: ‘My Dearest Jonah’

Matthew Crow's epistolary second novel proves a thoughtful work with flashes of brilliance.

Oxford Oddities #2 – Wadham

Exploring the history of our colleges to discover eccentric artistic personalities. This week the focus is on Wadham College.

Large-scale opera-tions

Christy Edwall talks to impresario Ellen Kent about Romanians, Verdi, and pheasants

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Arthur Miller

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through GCSE-syllabus American favourite

What’s On TT12: Waiting In The Wings

Enter Angus Hawkins with his theatrical picks for the term

A Bluffers’ Guide to: Harold Pinter

Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the master of the pause

Hirst’s Hidden Gems

Viccy Ibbett finds Damien Hirst an unexpected but inconsistent source of great art.

Review: Jack White – Blunderbuss

Sarah Poulten finds that Jack White's début matches greatness with an innate sense of fun

Review: Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

Marc Pacitti finds that Spiritualized's new album comes the closest yet to reaching the huge potential many had worried Jason Pierce would never realise
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