Hailed by director Joanna Bowman as ‘one of the great playwrights of the 21st century’, Lynn Nottage’s play would stand out as a searing social study of the marginalised in America whenever it was written. But for it to have premiered off-Broadway just before Donald…
Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show has come to Aylesbury as part of a new world tour. As the longest continuous run of a contemporary musical anywhere in the world, The Rocky Horror Show has been seen by 30 million people and…
This is my second visit to Giffords circus at Chiswick house, not being from this side of town the first time we went we managed to get hopelessly lost, so this time we set off early and only got a little bit lost! (Although I…
A quick note before we get started on the urinal, I would just like to mention the fact that the King’s head theatre has moved: It is no longer above the pub, it now has its very own location in the newly developed Islington square…
I’ve never got football…until now. While, to my mind, it consists of 22 men being paid huge amounts of money to kick a ball for hundreds if not thousands of fans, some of whom go on to cause havoc in surrounding streets, Ron Ferguson’s story,…
If you’re longing for a glitzy, exuberant, glamorous, colourful show and can’t wait for panto season again, then Priscilla Queen of the Desert is the show for you. With sumptuous sparkling costumes, drag queens a plenty, high octane disco music and some raunchy dance routines,…
He’s greedy, he’s grumptious, he’s beastly, he’s…BACK! Following smash-hit runs at Leeds Playhouse in 2023 and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2024 and 2025, The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle to Aylesbury in search of delicious little fingers and squidgy, podgy…
Entertaining murder at the Gatehouse theatre, Highgate A musical murder mystery written and directed by Chris Burgess based around a real life murder trial which took place just over a century ago in 1922. The plot is fairly simple: Glamorous dreamer Edith Thompson is bored…
I didn’t know I liked country music… until now. From the opening bars of a show which charts the lives and music of Johnny Cash and his second wife, June Carter, I was tapping my toes and already fully invested in the two hours of…
at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Queen Of The Night – A Tribute to Whitney Houston returns in 2026 for another show-stopping celebration, following sold-out tours across the UK, including an arena tour and iconic venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and The London Palladium. Established…