Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Culture

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is anxious. The one-hour solo cello comedy show is filled with anxiety, existential dread, and uncertainty....

The Oxford Revue at the Fringe

★★★☆☆ Returning for their 62nd annual pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe, the Oxford Revue rolled...

Academia is hell, literally: R.F. Kuang’s ‘Katabasis’

R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis touches on a range of near-universal academic experiences: impostor syndrome; frantic,...

Oxford Commas at the Fringe – Interview

The Oxford Commas are a contemporary gender-inclusive a capella group who had their Fringe...

Review: Blood Wedding

A bloody ambitious effort, says Vanessa Lehner

Review: ‘Love’ by Angels and Airwaves

Not quite worth the hype, says Sam Pilgrim

Sound of the Underground

Christian Bridge talks to The Sunshine Underground

Preview: The Revenger’s Tragedy

Treachery, lust and murder in the Exeter chapel

First Night Review: Little Shop of Horrors

Let down by a talented but under-rehearsed cast

First Night Review: Samson Agonistes

Merton Chapel provides the perfect backdrop for this atmospheric production

First Night Review: The Oxford Revue

The Oxford Revue fails to deliver the sun, sea and sauciness promised.

Feature: Amateur Cinematics

Nick Pierce celebrates student filmmaking

Underrated

Films that didn't get the attention they deserved...this week, The Fall

Review: The Last Station

Expect to see this hitting the BBC on repeat in future, don't expect our reviewer to be watching

Review: Extraordinary Measures

It doesn't quite measure up

Online review: Micmacs

Enjoyable film with a couple of incongruous scenes

Oxford Union Ball: From Russia with Love

Last Friday's James Bond themed Union Ball was double 0 Heaven...

Oxford University Orchestra (Benjamin Wallfisch)

Our classical music reviwer was impressed at the Sheldonian Theatre on 19th February

Photo Blog: Part VI

A sideways glance at life in Oxford...

Moments snatched in a life of touch and go

James Wright follows Jan Morris' new book 'Contact!' across a whole lifetime and half the known world

Landy’s ‘Art Bin’. Trash or Treat?

Sam Pilgrim ponders whether chucking away works of art can genuinely be considered, erm, art

Review: IMPerium

Elizabeth Biggs finds the Imps far from imperious

Review: Three Sisters

Perhaps take a rain check(ov)

Review: Samson Agonistes

Atmospheric surroundings pardon the flaws in this production

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