Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury, where it continues until 30 May 2026. The tour continues until 1 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This new take on a trail-blazing show welcomes audiences back with a blast and encourages a fresh peek.
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Barnum – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Barnum was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury where it continues until 28 March 2026. The tour continues until 31 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ A very enjoyable show with incredibly skilled performers.
FRIENDS! The Musical Parody – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
FRIENDS! The Musical Parody was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury where it continues until 22 November 2025. The tour continues until 2 May 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★
Calamity Jane the Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Calamity Jane the Musical was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury where it continues until 18 January 2025. The tour continues until 27 September 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ An uplifting experience that mixes wit, charm and musical magic.
Ghost the Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Ghost the Musical was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury. The tour continues until 3 May 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I urge you to catch this production while you can, you won’t regret this spectacular night of theatre.
Craig Revel Horwood to direct and choreograph new British musical NOW That’s What I Call A Musical
Craig Revel Horwood will step away from the sequinned world of Strictly to direct and choreograph the world premiere production of award-winning comedian Pippa Evans’ NOW That’s What I Call A Musical.
Heathers The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Heathers The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 3 June 2023 and then tours until 28 October 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 13 May 2023 and then tours until 14 October 2023. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩
The Commitments – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
The Commitments continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 4 February 2023 and then tours until 1 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Blood Brothers – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Blood Brothers continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 19 November 2022 and then tours until 3 December 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The musical remains not just a British classic but a show for our time. No wonder many a tear was shed in the Waterside auditorium.
Six – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Six continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 16 July 2022 and on tour until 8 July 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There is a whole bunch of reasons why Six The Musical has become such a huge success but one of them is that Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ international […]
We Will Rock You – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
We Will Rock You continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 7 May 2022 and then tours until 5 September 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Fun for all the family, the hit show We Will Rock You – packed with Queen’s much-loved songs and a book by Ben Elton – plays at […]
Hairspray – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Hairspray continues at the Waterside Theatre, Ayelsbury until 11 September 2021 and then tours until 2 April 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s the first show at Aylesbury Waterside since before the pandemic hit and heartbreakingly forced many of our theatres to shut. With the doors now fully open, what […]
Nativity! The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Nativity! The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 10 November 2019 and then tours until 29 December (including a run at London’s Eventim Apollo Theatre from 11-29 December). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Despite the autumnal weather, Christmas has arrived sparkling and shining to the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. Joyous Nativity! […]
Fame The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Fame The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 1 December 2018 and then on tour. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ In the early stages of watching this revival of Fame The Musical, I began to wonder how much it would connect with teenagers today nearly 40 years after the period […]
Saturday Night Fever – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Saturday Night Fever was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury. The tour continues until 1 December 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ This production of Saturday Night Fever brought funky dance moves and singalongs to Aylesbury – even on a weekday! The story, of course, follows the lead character Tony Manero (played […]
All Or Nothing – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
All Or Nothing continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 14 October, and then tours until 11 November. The show transfers to the Arts Theatre, London from 6 February to 11 March 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ All Or Nothing transports its audience to the 1960s Mod scene to show how […]
Ghost The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Ghost The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and then tours until 29 April. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Movie-to-stage adaptations work best when members of the creative team take the best qualities of the original and then have a very, very long think about how to bring the material […]
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 11 March and then tours until 11 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Twenty-eight years after its West End debut and 17 years on the road, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story comes to the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. As its name suggests, the show follows […]
Dreamboats and Petticoats – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Dreamboats and Petticoats continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 25 February and then tours until 2 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ played a rather influential role in the UK’s decision to tick the yes-to-Brexit box last year. The debate about whether those memories of post-war Britain […]
Chicago – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Chicago continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 16 July and then tours until 26 November 2016. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ goes the saying and it’s one that applies to this slick and sophisticated reinterpretation of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s Chicago […]
Chaplin – The Charlie Chaplin Story – Aylesbury and Touring
Chaplin: The Charlie Chaplin Story was reviewed at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and continues touring until 24 July. Rating: two and a half stars There was enough drama in Charlie Chaplin’s life to create a lengthy mini-series, so perhaps it makes sense that the creators of this musical play (librettist Stuart Price and composer Jake […]
The Sound of Music – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
The Sound of Music at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and touring until 22 October. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It wasn’t long ago that I caught up with this touring production of the much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in Milton Keynes. Now the Bill Kenwright-produced show is on the road again, with several […]
Tom – A Story of Tom Jones – The Musical – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
Tom – A Story of Tom Jones – The Musical continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 9 August and then tours until 4 June. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ Twenty minutes into Tom – A Story of Tom Jones and it was time to check the front of the programme. Yes, the words ‘The Musical’ were […]
Annie – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring
Annie continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 19 March, then on tour until 11 June 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ However cheesy and sentimental the story of little orphan Annie becomes in this much-loved musical, first on Broadway just under 40 years ago, the message that “the sun will come out […]
