Wednesday 12th November 2025

Culture

The performance of watching: Cinema in the Letterboxd age

While watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (2025) a few weeks ago, I found myself asking a rather disturbing question: “I wonder what people on Letterboxd are...

Film festivals should be more pretentious, actually!

Film festivals often get a bad rep. We’ve all heard the stereotype before: they...

On the edge of honesty: ‘The Man Who Turned into a Stick’

To rehearse and perform an entire student production before the second week of Michaelmas...

Erotic suspense and trickery: ‘Twelfth Night’ at St Hugh’s 

Lovers mismatched, siblings detached, and plans of trickery hatched: it is the time of...

Review: West Side Story

Frances Kaye is thrilled by Lincoln College Players' contribution to the Turl Street Arts Festival

London puts its best foot forward

Cecilia Stinton explores the capital's celebrations of the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his groundbreaking Ballets Russes

Preview: Othello

Daniel Frampton sees strengths but also some weaknesses in Corpus Christi's re-imagining of the Bard

Preview: Lars Sorken, A Norwiegan Noir

Charlotte Lennon enjoys this striking, strange piece

Review: The Truth

Angus Hawkins is confused and disappointed by St Hilda's latest theatrical endeavor into the world of Terry Pratchett

Preview: Mephisto

Joshua Philips is fascinated and engrossed by Milja Fenger's latest production, Mephisto, at the Oxford Playhouse

Interview: The Awkward Silence

Daniel Frampton quizzes comedy duo, 'The Awkward Silence' on their adventures into the world of radio

The Final Stages: Mephisto

With the curtain rising in a matter of days, Lloyd Houston takes a looks back on his experience acting in Mephisto

A Bluffers’ Guide To: Surf Pop

Wetsuit on, grab your board, and let's catch some rollers with Natasha Frost

Out and onstage

Daniel Frampton examines the prejudices facing LGBT actors

Review: Tennis – Young & Old

Marc Pacitti reviews Tennis' second album Young & Old

The power of fiction

Jack Powell discusses 'gay fiction' with author Paul Burston

Review: Shearwater – Animal Joy

Richard O'Brien reviews the latest offering from the Okkervil River offshoot

Review: Chronicle

James Aber chronicles Trank's debut

Gary Numan: new sounds, new man

Natasha Frost listens to the ins and outs of Gary Numan's trials and tribulations with technology

A flag for all seasons

Michael Brooks on the symbolism of the rainbow flag

Review: The Descendants

Donal O'Hara applauds Clooney's understated performance

Leader of the Pack

Barbara Speed talks to Sue Sanders, founder of LGBT History Month

Orchesrated Optimism

Venezuelan conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa discusses why classical music isn’t dead with Cecilia Stinton

Decades in Film: the 70s

Amy Hadfield reflects on the 1970's ch-ch-ch-changes

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