BREAKING NEWS: St Benet’s Hall announces that university will not renew its official licence and addresses possibility of ceasing operations altogether
Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei
BREAKING NEWS: St Benet’s Hall announces that university will not renew its official licence and addresses possibility of ceasing operations altogether
Oxford Kite Festival to feature artists and thinkers such as Grace Jones, Richard Dawkins, and Ai Weiwei
Entertainment·15th February 2022“They All Deserve To Die”: Sweeney Todd Review Abigail Stevens Image Description: red and white promotional picture of Sweeney Todd holding his trusty razor. CW – Graphic violence, rape, cannibalism... Read More
Entertainment·2nd May 2018Preview: Travesties Heather McDade Travesties, by Tom Stoppard, is largely set in Zurich in the middle of the First World War. The turbulence... Read More
Entertainment·18th November 2016‘Tastefully Executed, Intimate and Brooding’ Summer and Smoke: A Review Yoo Chun This production of Tennessee William’s ‘Summer & Smoke’, the first in the UK in ten years, is tastefully executed and... Read More
Entertainment·30th October 2014Review: The Pillowman William Aslet ✮✮✮✮✮ You would be hard pressed to find a comedy blacker than Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. It is a... Read More
Entertainment·27th February 2014Caucasian Chalk Circle comes around William Forrest The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bertolt Brecht’s brutal satire, morality play and modernist fairy-tale is currently undergoing treatment by ‘Screw the... Read More
Entertainment·13th February 2014Semi-monde, fully-fun Surprises abound in Semi-Monde, a delightfully dishonest comedy by Noel Coward on at The Playhouse this term. Concerned with the... Read More
Entertainment·21st January 2014Almost Random: random as ever, and wonderfully worth it Emily Holman One theatre group, two nights, six plays. Almost Random Theatre (ART) is barely twenty months old and has begun 2014... Read More
Entertainment·12th November 2013Barbarous barber brings bloodshed to the Playhouse Jack Myers ✮✮✮✮ “Shepherd’s pie peppered with actual shepherd on top.” Probably the best line in any musical ever. It actually sums... Read More
Entertainment·23rd October 2013Descendants play the dead for a night of Playhouse tragedy Sophie Baggott ✮✮✮✮✮ I confess, I took my seat (classy Circle D27, cheers OxStu) in the Playhouse without having so much as... Read More
Entertainment·16th October 2013The Big Apple, a big budget, and big potential for The Producers Jack Myers Strolling up Jowett’s Walk, bound for a preview of the upcoming Playhouse take on The Producers, I couldn’t help but... Read More
Culture·28th December 2021Unselfconsciously pretentious: Persephone review Toni Ledda Image Description: The name ‘Persephone’ on a pink background with illustrations of roses, a pomegranate and a skeletal hand. CW... Read More
News·14th October 2017Dame Maggie Smith awarded Mansfield honorary degree Mansfield College has announced in a press release that Dame Maggie Smith, English actress, is to be conferred with an... Read More
Entertainment·28th October 2015Preview: Singin’ in the Rain William Shaw There are two things that any British production of Singin’ in the Rain needs to do in order to succeed.... Read More
Entertainment·24th April 2014‘Tis Pity is bloody good Eleanor Trend Cheek by Jowl know how to put on a show. The company’s exhilarating production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore... Read More
Entertainment·25th February 2014Glitz at the Ritz: Semi-Monde has the audience roaring with laughter Charanpreet Khaira ✮✮✮✮ Noel Coward’s Semi-Monde running at the Oxford Playhouse this week, is a delightful romp through the opulence and extravagance... Read More
Entertainment·31st January 2014Twelfth Night for the umpteenth time, so what’s new? ✮✮✮ Running at just under 90 minutes, you’d expect that Filter’s production of Twelfth Night would kill off some Shakespeare... Read More
Entertainment·13th November 2013‘100’% must-see Rebecca Henderson ✮✮✮✮ With the prizes and prestige of the original show combined with gritty themes of human existence and value, it... Read More
Entertainment·31st October 2013Producers packs a punch Liliane Slater ✮✮✮✮ I come from California, and the first thing that comes to mind when faced with the prospect of an American... Read More
Entertainment·17th October 2013Cliché and contrivance circumnavigated – even in Arcadia Costanza Bertoni ✮✮✮✮✮ Arcadia by Tom Stoppard: ring any bells? Yeah, I imagined so. And not only because it’s one of the greatest... Read More