Tuesday 12th May 2026

Culture

Internet Babies: Students of Subculture

There’s a certain kind of artist that I keep coming back to lately: artists who seem to know exactly what I want to hear before I do. Not algorithmically,...

May Morning

Smudged mascara and the curling of coffee steam. Small yawns and the shuffling of...

Sunday

That Sunday could arrive first-class, Wrapped in tissue and stickers with minimalist logo. Sent anonymously (from...

Hail Agnes full of grace: ‘Hamnet’ and the perfect mother figure

Buckley swept this year’s award season for her performance as Agnes in Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the Maggie O’Farrell book of the same name.

Zoom in on….club photography

Sophie Baggott talks to club photographer Chris Russell-Gray about providing memories for the morning after the night before

Preview: Freedom of the City

A brilliant, intimate, yet harrowing piece of theatre

Preview: The Get-Out

A polished, convincing piece of original writing

Review: Bloody Poetry

Vickie Morrish recommends this play of Romantics behaving badly

Preview: The Last Five Years

A remarkable depiction of love and loss in the modern world

Life in a La Boheme-ian rhapsody

Katy Write reviews the Welsh National Opera at The New Theatre.

Cuppers Review: The Real Inspector Hound

Vickie Morrish is impressed by Trinity's adaptation of this classic Tom Stoppard whodunit.

Review: Rough Justice

Claire Rodwell thoroughly recommends this impressive judicial production

Review: The Stream

Hyunjip Kim is impressed by this new weekly arts festival

Behind the Scenes: The Awkward Silence

Ralph Jones, co-creator of The Awkward Silence sketch duo, discusses why you should take a trip down to Port Mahon

Behind the Scenes: Vagrant

Alex Darby talks about his latest piece of theatre, and polarisation between the ways of life in Oxford.

Review: A Possible Life, Sebastian Faulks

Faulks satisfies with a good piece of solid literature

Review: The History of the England, Vol. II

Ackroyd plays nice with a disappointing return to a familiar period

Where are they now: Hugh Grant

Cherwell Stage looks at another of the Oxford stage's great alumni

Preview: Bloody Poetry

A strong cast makes for an intriguing production

Review: Taylor Swift – Red

Natasha Frost is impressed by the professionalism of this country-pop star.

Review: Gathering @ Oxford venues

A magic suffused evening of music and festival revelry.

Interview: Japandroids

Marc Pacitti talks tours, Pitchfork and incendiary devices with band Japandroids

Fan-tash-tic!

Martha Newson shows us how Movember should be done, at the 2012 British Beard and Moustache Championships

Screenwriters Losing the Plot

Huw Fullerton fills in the plot-holes of recent television disappointments (and 1997's Titanic)

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