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Theatre

Cool to be Curious

Muddy reviews this phenomenal National Theatre production, in Oxford until Saturday. The long and short of it? GO!
Jane Eyre

If you see one play this year, make it this jaw-droppingly brilliant production at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

Evita, New Theatre, Oxford

Don’t cry for me, Muddy readers, the truth is I’ll never leave YOUUUUUU…. Fresh from a sell-out West End run and and newly arrived in our ‘hood, Evita has flounced up to Oxford’s New Theatre in her furs but is she worthy of your affections?
Muddy reviews: Wonderland at New Theatre, Oxford

A re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland at Oxford’s New Theatre, with our heroine now in her forties, having a mid-life crisis and searching for a way to get out of the hole (get it?). Read the Muddy review.

Review: ‘Aladdin’ at the Aylesbury Waterside

I’m just back from Aylesbury Waterside Theatre and onto my computer to give you my hot-off-the-panto press verdict on Aladdin starring EastEnders‘ Michelle Collins and TOWIE‘s Jasmin Walia. To put it succinctly – because I’m knackered! – I think you’ll love it. There, shall I go to bed now? What do you mean no?! […]
Dirty Dancing at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

Watching the first night of the Dirty Dancing The Musical at the AWT was exactly like watching the movie (which is no bad thing, let’s face it), but with added hysteria. Go-with-your-girlfriends gold-dust.

A-list comedy nights in, er, Winchmore Hill!

In an unassuming country pub outside Amersham there’s a seemingly endless supply of A-list comedians begging to perform. Muddy goes along to see Zoe Lyons on the mic.
See this: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

Just a quickie review this, because I need to let you know before it ends on Saturday. I went to the Wycombe Swan last night to see the opening night of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty and it was every bit as incredible as I’ve been banging on about in the Muddy Guide. This revived 2012 […]

Booking for the Edinburgh Festival?

Here’s an admission. I’ve never been to the Edinburgh Fringe. Or Glastonbury for that matter. Not very cool of me but *sigh* here you go. Whilst nothing will ever ever ever induce me to don wellies and carry wet wipes around all weekend at Glasto, I do have pangs of guilt and remorse at having […]
‘Annie’ at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

Take one 8 year old child, give her candyfloss, a reason to dress up, Lesley Josph hamming it up as Miss Haversham and the most girl-friendly musical on the planet and what do you get? One extremely happy, sugar-frenzied mudlet.