Classical
REVIEW: ‘Fast, filthy, frantic, fun, furious and beautifully sung’ WNO’s Rigoletto at New Theatre’s satire targets Bullingdon Club amidst funding crisis!
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The Welsh National Opera production of Guiseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the New Theatre until tonight (October 26), is fast, filthy, frantic, fun and...
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‘It’s like the naughty sibling’ Oxford Uni graduate Shamil Thakrar returns to open Dishoom Permit Room in Oxford city centre!
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Shamil Thakrar had no idea when he graduated from University College Oxford with a PPE degree in 1993, that fast forward several decades...
Charity & Fundraising
RECORD BREAKERS: Oxfordshire caterers Thomas Franks smash Guinness World Record by cooking 79,500 charity meals using surplus food, in under 24 hours
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Ten tonnes of tomatoes, three tonnes of cabbage and two tonnes of peppers were amongst the 30 tonnes of surplus food used during...
Musicals
REVIEW: West End’s ‘Heathers The Musical’ at Oxford Playhouse is hilarious, murderous and darkly delicious, deserving its standing ovation
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There is a caveat on the Oxford Playhouse website re Heathers The Musical advising: 'This production contains haze, loud noises including gunshots, flashing...
am dram
REVIEW: ‘Exciting, unsettling, darkly humorous, satirical and life-affirming” OTG brings Gormenghast to OFS
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The 900 page Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake has been sitting defiantly unread on my bookshelf for a couple of years now.
Not having...
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REVIEW: ‘A novel culinary adventure’ Curry Nights with Nandita’s six course Punjabi pop-up supper club at The Grain Store
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Did I want to go on a Punjabi culinary adventure where most of the dishes were total novelties? Yes. In this line of...
Do
Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to headline Nocturne Live 2025 at Blenheim Palace with support acts Lightning Seeds and The Zutons!
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Notorious Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft is the first headliner to be announced for next summer’s Nocturne Live.
Supported by Lightning Seeds and The Zutons, he will perform...
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘I’m not finished yet!’ Why Oxford restaurateur Clinton Pugh has bought back Kazbar on Cowley Road
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Clinton Pugh is in an expansive mood when we meet to discuss why he's bought back Kazbar on Cowley Road, despite a tumultuous...
Dance
REVIEW: ‘Reserve a ticket’ Rambert Dance’s ‘Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby’ at New Theatre Oxford
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Opening amid the horrors of Flanders, before sweeping in to post-war industrial Birmingham, Rambert Dance's adaption of Peaky Blinders was always going to...
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Saltburn fans – don’t miss ‘undiscovered gem’ Gormenghast at OFS as Oxford Theatre Guild adapts the thrilling Gothic fantasy!
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Considered impossible to adapt, Gormenghast is a series of novels by British author Mervyn Peake about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure...













