Thursday 11th December 2025

Culture

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s 2009 tragicomedy.  The play follows a group of people of different ages taking a beginners’ drama...

‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025

When I wandered into Tingewick Hall on a cold, dark evening in seventh week,...

A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed

Tiptoe Productions’ Hedda Gabler, co-directed by Ollie Gillam and Gilon Fox, delivered a strong...

‘Lux’ by Rosalía review: A breath of fresh air

'The Latin title ‘Lux’ perfectly embodies the concept and overall aesthetic of divine femininity, as well as the multilingual aspects that run throughout the work. With complex and meaningful lyrics written in 13 languages, and split into four movements, the record is a breath of fresh air for the pop scene'.

First Night Review : Broken Stars

Julian Bubb-Humfryies sees 'a competant and thoughtful production' at the Wadham Moser Theatre.

Oxford Book Club

Michelle Cancellier on her recent visit to the Oxford Book Club

A fishy phenomenon

Fay Lomas pays tribute to a daring Oxford artistic feat

Better to be Popular than right

A review of Oxford alumnus Gareth Russell's new young adults' novel 'Popular'

Review: Brian Eno & Rick Holland – Panic Of Looking

Natasha Frost is bored, bothered and bewildered by Brian Eno's latest EP

Review: King Krule – King Krule

Hotly tipped seventeen year old Archy Marshall's debut EP is well received by Natasha Frost

Review: Atlas Sound – Parallax

Jake Hills examines Bradford Cox's latest album under his Atlas Sound moniker, his first full-length release since Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest

Flesh and noise: meeting S.C.U.M.

Isabel de Berrié talks flesh, shoegaze and sleeping rough in Venice with the quintet's Thomas Cohen

The best of 2011

The Cherwell Music team gets their thinking caps on to recommend the best of 2011's releases

Review: The Ides of March

Jacob Williamson is finds the ends justify the means in The Ides of March

A year-full of dollars

Helen Joslin takes a look back over the financial winners of 2011

The Future’s Bright

Sasha O'Connor finds cinematic futurism a little too perfect

Preview : Broken Stars

Emily Fry finds Oxford's latest new writing 'Broken Stars' to be a confusing production of an interesting concept. Broken Stars is on at the Wadham Moser Theatre from Mon-Thurs of 8th Week.

Preview : Kafka’s Dick

Roland Walters enjoys Alan Bennet's phallic play. Kafka's Dick is on in the Burton Taylor in 8th Week

Preview : A Man for all Seasons

A powerful Tudor play, taking place in a fantastic setting, A Man For All Seasons takes place in the University Church in 8th Week.

How to take on the stage blight

Former OUDS Treasurer Aidan Grounds on how Oxford’s drama is managing to blossom despite troubled economic times

Rum, rap and revolución

The stand off between rap artists and the Cuban state has reached its tipping point, writes Rachel Savage

First Night Review : Noughts and Crosses

James Misson is nought convinced by the new performance of Malorie Blackman's Book. Noughts and Crosses is on at the LMH Simpkins Lee theatre Weds - Sat of 7th Week.

Tony and the nouvelle weird

Tony Rauch tells Joy Worth about the creation of a new genre

Cherwell Music presents Mixer: Oxmas

A Christmas gift to you from Cherwell Music, featuring some unexpected Christmas classics from Weezer, The Raveonettes, Shonen Knife, and more.

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