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Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’

I walked into the Wyndham Theatre’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill half-expecting a night at the London Theatre like any other. Beer in hand,...

Film around the world – Turkey’s Atıf Yılmaz

Atıf Yılmaz was a Turkish film director. Until his death in 2006, he was...

The Christ Church Picture Gallery: Review

The Christ Church Picture Gallery has free entry for Oxford students. It offers a chance to view one of the most impressive college art collections, with pieces spanning the 14th to 18th centuries

Men used to go to war – now they DJ

Why are so many people becoming DJs? This recent obsession has taken the world...

Matchstick Cats

Mark and Trev were surrounded on the bed of the truck by old wooden...

Simply Spock On

TrekSoc take a look at JJ Abrams's new take on the Star Trek canon

Preview: The Servant’s Ball Blitzkrieg

Our reviewer finds much to praise in the demotic magic and postcolonial absurdism of this original production

Review: Much Ado about Nothing

Shakespeare merges with shopping trolleys in this new, experimental production.

Review: HMS Pinafore

An operatic exposé of life in the Navy

Review: His Dark Materials

The long awaited arrival of the stage version of Pullman's masterpiece proves a delight

Review: Betrayal

We review the latest production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal

Review: Wolverine

We cast a critical eye over the origin story of the world's favourite adamantium-skeletoned hero

Cancer Bats Play Live in Oxford

Daniel Clarke braves the April showers to check out SSS, The Plight and Cancer Bats

Top Five Films To: Celebrate Your Inner Film Geek

Joe Brennan looks at his top five cult films

Top Five Films To: Get You In The Mood

Sophia Satchell-Baeza looks at the top five vampire flicks

King Lear

Harry Phillips reviews an "18-rated Shakesperean soap opera"

Interview: Serj Tankian

Beatrice Male speaks to Serj Tankian about politics, activism and the power of love songs

The grass is always greener…

Harry Phillips gets misty eyed extolling the virtues of theatre out on the lawns this summer.

In Trinity and Beyond

Cherwell gives you a run through of what to look forward to this term

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