Monday 8th September 2025

Culture

Night School: Oxford’s after-hours curriculum

The first time I saw Nahom and Ethan, it wasn’t on a night out – it was an early morning. I was shuffling through the half-awake crowd when my...

‘Delusions and Grandeur’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ If there is one word to describe Karen Hall’s Delusions and Grandeur, it is...

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,...

The New, still Beautiful South

Philippa Hibbs talks to Dave Hemingway about fame, gigging and life after Paul Heaton

Review: New Moon and a new man

Lucinda Knight falls in love all over again watching the latest in the Twilight saga

Bunny and the Bull Review

Cherwell follows the classic odd couple around Europe

Review: A State Affair

It's grim up north in the BT's final offering of term

Review: The Bacchae

Hertford bop cellar, 1st-3rd December

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

Worcester College JCR- 25th, 27th and 28th November

Jamie T – The Man’s Machine EP

Hannah Partos reviews Jamie T's forthcoming EP

Not so serious men

Josh Rosaler talks ambiguity and nihilism with the Cohen brothers

Review: Paradise Lost

A review of Milton's classic

Review: The School for Scandal

A classics rendering of Sheridan's comedy of manners

Review: Marriage of Figaro

Robin Thompson highly recommends this week's production of the opera at the Sheldonian.

Review: A Serious Man

The Coen brothers get serious in this latest offering.

Review: Steampunk

Lots of steam, just not enough punk for our reviewer.

Review: And Another Thing…

Eoin Colfer's Hitchhiker sequel is baffling, overlong and unfunny. Avoid.

No more Mr. Nice Guy

Josh Lowe gets tough on Nu-folk niceness, electronic contentment and ukuleles

Review: Medea

Nothing lost in translation in this greek offering.

Review: As you like it

Our reviewer likes it, as you will too.

Review: Peach Boy

A new all ages play based on Japanese folktale

Let me entertain you.

Cherwell takes a look at what colleges have to offer. This week: Magdalen

Review: According To

A new play by Oxford's very own David Ralf

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