REVIEW: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – the fairest panto in the land!
Photo courtesy of Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 05 December 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★ Aylesbury Waterside Theatre can always be relied on to deliver a rip-roaring and riotous pantomime. 2023’s offering of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is no exception. This magical panto transports the audience into a […]
REVIEW: Aladdin – Panto Perfection!
Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 06 December 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★★ It’s that time of year again when theatres are bursting with festive frolics, double entendres, and extravagant costumes. Panto season has begun in earnest and the magic and frivolity of this Great British tradition are alive and well at Aylesbury Waterside […]
REVIEW: Rock of Ages – A Gloriously Bonkers Glam Rock Musical
Rock of Ages UK Tour – Production Image Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 24 May 2022 Reviewer: Jo Neville Star Rating: ★★★★ Who can forget the big hair and the even bigger power ballads of the 1980s? Songs with stonking guitar riffs and hefty dollops of emotional angst delivered by leather-clad bands such as Whitesnake, Poison and Europe. […]
REVIEW: Footloose – won’t change your life, but it will put a smile on your face
Footloose UK Tour – Photo: Mark Senior Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 10 May 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★ Theatreland is somewhat saturated with movie musical offerings of late. We’ve had Dirty Dancing recently replaced by Grease at the cavernous Dominion Theatre in the West End. Both enjoyed UK tours before their London […]
REVIEW: We Will Rock You – Pop your smartphone down for three hours & go & immerse yourself in some good old-fashioned live entertainment
Cast of We Will Rock You UK Tour – Credit: Johan Persson Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 02 May 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★ Back in 2002 even the perceptive Ben Elton surely couldn’t have foreseen just how technology would evolve by the time We Will Rock You would celebrate its 20th anniversary […]
REVIEW: Fatal Attraction – A tempting, thought-provoking thriller
Oliver Farnworth and Susie Amy in Fatal Attraction Tour Credit: Tristram Kenton Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 05 April 2022 Reviewer: Jo Neville Star Rating: ★★★1/2 When Fatal Attraction opened in 1987 it soon became the film everyone was talking about. The psychological thriller terrified cinema audiences earned multiple Oscar nominations, and took more than […]
REVIEW : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – See the Lion and hear him roar
Chris Jared as Aslan (Image: Brinkhoff-Moegenburg) Venue: The Alexandra, Birmingham Performance Date: 08 March 2022 Reviewer: Ely King Star Rating: ★★★★ Many may know the story of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe from the best-selling books by C.S Lewis, or by movie trilogy The Chronicles of Narnia. Watching the stage adaptation takes you back to […]
REVIEW: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – oodles of potential
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World – Pamela Raith Photography Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 05 January 2022 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★1/2 Original new musicals are always welcome in a world saturated with reimagined and reworked classics. It’s rather timely then, that in a time when diversity and equality are being (rightly) […]
REVIEW: Cinderella – Beautifully chaotic, panto magic is well and truly back!
Cinderella at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre – Production Image Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 07 December 2021 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★ It has been a long and arduous two years without the frivolity, mischief, and shenanigans that panto season brings. Last year’s festive period was marred by the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown, and ongoing darkness […]
REVIEW : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – a genuine wish to award this stunning production infinite stars
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Photo by Brinkhoff-Moegenburg Venue: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Performance Date: 16 November 2021 Reviewer: Gemma Fincher Star Rating: ★★★★★ There are very few shows that come along which yield an unwavering urge to award it infinite stars. Such is the case with this otherworldly production of The Lion, the […]