What's On in Aylesbury: Half Term, Halloween and Fireworks

Half term is the busy stretch this autumn. Before it, the Waterside has Legally Blonde from Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 October, with the Friday and both Saturday shows sold out; Steve Hackett on Sunday 11 October has seats on sale again after selling out last week. During half term, Aylesbury Town Council runs free Halloween sessions across the town centre on Thursday 29 October, and the museum has something on every day. Straight after, Buckingham has its free bonfire and fireworks in Bourton Park on Saturday 31 October, 6pm to 8pm.

Everything below comes from the organisers’ own listings, first read on 28 September 2026 and re-checked on 3 and 6 October: the Waterside’s performance data on ATG, the Queens Park Arts Centre box office, Discover Bucks Museum, Buckinghamshire Council’s market pages, Waddesdon Manor, and the two town councils’ event calendars. Waterside prices are the cheapest seat on sale that day, before ATG’s booking fee, and they move as seats sell. Every entry links back to its source so you can check before you set off. Pumpkin patches, after-dark trails and the rest of Halloween are on our Aylesbury Halloween page, and for places that are open whatever the month, see our guide to things to do in Aylesbury.

This week

Legally Blonde, Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 October

The touring production at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Exchange Street, HP20 1UG, stars Amber Davies as Elle. Evenings are at 7.30pm, Tuesday to Saturday, with 2.30pm matinees on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. On 6 October Friday’s show and both Saturday performances were sold out, and tonight’s opening and the Wednesday and Thursday evenings were down to low availability. The cheapest seats were £30.29 on Wednesday evening and £31.25 at the Thursday matinee; the Wednesday matinee had gone up to £39.90. Tuesday and Thursday evenings started at £75.40, all before the booking fee (ATG Tickets).

Also this week

• Pumpkin picking at Lillingstone, every October weekend, next on Saturday 10 October, then all of half term, 10am to 4.30pm, Lillingstone Dayrell, MK18 5AF. Booking is essential and prices vary by date (Lillingstone Pick Your Own). More farms on our Halloween page.
• Discover Ducks, Thursday 8 October, 10am to 12pm, Discover Bucks Museum. Stories, songs, games, a craft and a mini trail for under 5s, this month on a Day and Night theme. £5 for one child, £8 for two, adults free (Discover Bucks Museum).
• The Orbison Project, Friday 9 October, 7.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio at the Waterside. A Roy Orbison tribute band, from £26 (ATG Tickets).
• Ceilidh Fundraiser, Friday 9 October, 8pm, Limelight Theatre, Queens Park. The Queens Park Pickers play, with Tim Rooke calling the dances, and beginners are walked through each one. £12.50, in aid of the arts centre (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• WiFi Wars, Saturday 10 October, 4pm and 7pm, Norman Bragg Studio. A live game show the audience plays on their phones, recommended for ages 6 and up, from £12 (ATG Tickets).
• Self-defence Workshop, Saturday 10 October, 2pm to 3.30pm, The Railway Club, HP21 8HH. Free, for anyone aged 12 and over, no experience needed, booked in advance. Parking at the venue is limited (Aylesbury Town Council).
• Off The Record, Saturday 10 October, 7.30pm, Limelight Theatre, Queens Park. The monthly showcase of local musicians, this time Blue Jam Acoustic, Ember and Rapscallion, each playing a 45-minute set (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• A Concert: David Garrick and Huguenot music in England, Sunday 11 October, 5.30pm to 7.30pm, the Dairy at Waddesdon Manor, HP18 0JH. Bloomsbury Baroque with music and readings on the actor and the Huguenot community. From £25, parking at the Dairy included (Waddesdon Manor).
• Steve Hackett: Best of Genesis and Solo Gems, Sunday 11 October, 7.45pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Sold out on 3 October, but seats were back on sale on 6 October, from £51.50 with availability low (ATG Tickets).
• The Sunday Market, Sunday 11 October, 11am to 4pm, Market Square, HP20 1TW. The monthly artisan market that Buckinghamshire Council runs with Saunders Markets: makers, bakers, retro and vintage, fresh produce and street food. The next dates are 15 November and the Christmas Edition on 13 December, covered on our Christmas markets page (Buckinghamshire Council).
• Acoustic Open Mic Night, Sunday 11 October. Details under regular events below.

Next week

• The Rock Orchestra by Candlelight, Monday 12 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Sold out on 6 October (ATG Tickets).
• Justin Hayward, Wednesday 14 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. The Moody Blues singer’s Story In Your Eyes tour, from £42 (ATG Tickets).
• Calibre Conversations Live with Vaseem Khan, Thursday 15 October, 7.15pm to 9pm, Norman Bragg Studio at the Waterside. The crime writer talks about his Malabar House novels and his new series featuring Q from the James Bond books. Free, with tickets booked through the organiser, Calibre Audio (Humanitix).
• Sounds of the 60s Live, hosted by Tony Blackburn, Thursday 15 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £34, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• The Dung Beatles: 60th anniversary of Revolver, Friday 16 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Friars Aylesbury presents the whole album and more, after the band sold the Waterside out in 2025. From £20, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Tracy Borman: Tudors on Tour, Friday 16 October, 7.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Sold out on 6 October (ATG Tickets).
• Wonder Boy, Friday 16 October at 7.30pm and Saturday 17 October at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, Limelight Theatre, Queens Park. Running Joke Theatre Company in Ross Willis’s play about Sonny, a 12-year-old with a stammer. £15, concessions £12 (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• Buckingham Charter Fair, Saturday 17 and Saturday 24 October, from 1pm, Buckingham town centre. Nichols Amusements brings rides, sideshows and stalls, with a town centre road closure and a bus diversion on both weekends (Buckingham Town Council). Our Charter Fair road closures page has the streets and times.
• Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf, Saturday 17 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £28.50 (ATG Tickets).
• Silent Disco: 80s, 90s and 00s, Saturday 17 October, 8pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Strictly 18 and over, from £20.25 (ATG Tickets).

Later in October

• The Best of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells I, II and III, Monday 19 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £37.50 (ATG Tickets).
• Arsenal Legends, Tuesday 20 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Paul Merson, Alan Smith and Ray Parlour, compered by Perry Groves, from £34.50 (ATG Tickets).
• The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town, Tuesday 20 October, 7.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio, from £23, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Lost in Music: One Night at the Disco, Wednesday 21 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £26.50 (ATG Tickets).
• Standing with Giants: D-Day 1476, For Your Tomorrow, from Wednesday 21 October to 29 November, 10am to 4pm, Waddesdon Manor. Silhouettes across the grounds for the 1,476 people who died under British command on D-Day, free with grounds admission. The manor opens Wednesday to Sunday (Waddesdon Manor). Over the same dates the house shows 1939-1945: A House Interrupted, on the 100 evacuee children from Croydon who lived there in the war, free with that grounds ticket (Waddesdon Manor). Our Remembrance Sunday page has the dawn and twilight openings.
• Katherine Jenkins, Thursday 22 October, 7pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Her 25 Year Anniversary Tour, from £44.50, with availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Burning Rope, Friday 23 October, 8pm, Limelight Theatre, Queens Park. Blues rock from the band formed by the rest of Catfish. £15 (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• Comedy Club, Friday 23 October, 8pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Stand-up for over-18s, from £14, availability low; the next one is Friday 13 November (ATG Tickets).
• CBeebies House Party Live!, Saturday 24 October, 11am and 2pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £12 (ATG Tickets).
• The Searchers and Hollies Experience, Saturday 24 October, 7.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Hits of the two 1960s bands, from £27, availability low (ATG Tickets).

Half term at Discover Bucks Museum

The museum on Church Street, HP20 2QP, has something on every day of half term, all booked through its half-term page. The weekday crafts are drop-ins from 10am to 3pm with last entry at 2.30pm, £4 per child with one adult free and £4 for each extra adult:

• Spiders and Webs, Monday 26 October: a yarn-wrapped spider and a hanging web, ages 4 and up (booking).
• Ghouls and Ghosts, Tuesday 27 October: a 3D haunted scene with a moving ghost, ages 4 and up.
• Clay Monsters, Wednesday 28 October: a Halloween monster in clay, ages 3 and up (booking).
• Spooky Science, Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October: a taught hour of witches’ brew and ogre slime at 10.15am, 12.15pm or 2.15pm, ages 5 and up, £7.50 with one adult free (booking).
• Creepy Doll Hunt, Saturday 31 October: a torchlit hunt through the museum in booked slots from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, £5 each and not for under-10s (booking).

It is also the last week of The SAXONS, the museum’s exhibition on the Taplow, Marlow and Wendover burials, which closes on 1 November (Discover Bucks Museum).

Halloween Fun in the town centre, Thursday 29 October

Aylesbury Town Council’s free half-term day runs from 11am to 3pm across three town centre venues. Fusion shows Casper at 11am and 1pm, Esquires runs spooky craft sessions at 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm, and Darlington’s has junk modelling workshops at the same four times. Everything is free, but places are limited and every session has to be booked in advance through Ticket Tailor (Aylesbury Town Council).

The rest of half term

• Mr Sleepybum’s Dream Machine, Monday 26 October, 11am, Norman Bragg Studio. A new children’s show for ages 3 to 8, from £14 (ATG Tickets).
• Megaslam Wrestling, Monday 26 October, 7pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £11.32 (ATG Tickets).
• Mark Smith: Hearts of Oak, Tuesday 27 October, 7.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio. The antiques expert on the story of the Victoria Cross, from £52, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• The ELO Experience, Wednesday 28 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. The music of Jeff Lynne and ELO, ages 8 and up, from £34.50 (ATG Tickets).
• QPAC half-term workshops, Queens Park Arts Centre, HP21 7RT, £18 each or £16 for members: children’s printmaking (ages 7 to 11) on Monday 26 October, 10am to 12.30pm; lino printing for teens (12 to 17) the same day, 1.30pm to 4pm; and children’s pottery (7 to 11) on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 October (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• Buckingham Careers Fair, Thursday 29 October, 5.30pm to 8.30pm, Buckingham Community Centre, Cornwalls Meadow, MK18 1RP. Free (Buckingham Town Council).
• The Magic of Motown, Thursday 29 October, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £27 (ATG Tickets).
• The Witch Who Couldn’t Sleep, Friday 30 October, 2.30pm, Norman Bragg Studio at the Waterside. A Halloween play for children, from £14 (ATG Tickets).

Buckingham fireworks, Saturday 31 October

Buckingham Town Council’s free bonfire and fireworks is in Bourton Park Paddock on Saturday 31 October, 6pm to 8pm, with a torch-lit parade, a bonfire, live music from DJ Dan Blaze and food and drink stalls; the fireworks go up at 7pm. Personal fireworks and sparklers are banned, and the council asks drivers to use Cornwalls Meadow car park because parking near the paddock is “extremely limited” (Buckingham Town Council). More on our fireworks page. Aylesbury town has no display of its own; its fireworks come at the end of Christmas on the Cobbles on 22 November, set out on our Christmas lights page.

Earlier the same day, Forestry England has Storytime with Gruffalo Granny at Wendover Woods, 10am to 4pm: storytelling at 10.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm and 3pm and Gruffalo meet-and-greets on the hour from 11am. It is free with no booking, but car park charges apply to non-members (Forestry England).

November

• The Brown Suite, Sunday 1 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. A new soul dance show, ages 8 and up, from £14.42 (ATG Tickets).
• The Illegal Eagles, Monday 2 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £31, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Christmas in Ireland, Tuesday 3 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £27.50 (ATG Tickets).
• WPC1, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November, 7.30pm, Limelight Theatre, Queens Park. Dario Knight’s new one-act play about Olive Kemp, who became Buckinghamshire’s first woman police constable in 1945, part of this year’s Buckinghamshire History Festival. £10, concessions £8 (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• Classically Kate Bush, Friday 6 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £34 (ATG Tickets).
• Hundred Watt Club, Friday 6 November, 8pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Burlesque and cabaret for over-18s, from £20.25, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• QPAC Artisan Craft Fair, Saturday 7 November, 10am to 4pm, Queens Park Arts Centre, HP21 7RT. About 35 local makers’ stalls through the building, with live theatre and music, a cake sale and a children’s activity (Queens Park Arts Centre). Entry is free, with donations welcome (Aylesbury Town Council).
• National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope, Saturday 7 November, 7pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Sandra Oh in Moliere’s comedy, on screen, from £13.50 (ATG Tickets).
• Phil Wang: UH OH, Saturday 7 November, 8pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £32, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Buckingham Remembrance Day Parade, Sunday 8 November. The Royal British Legion parade forms up on Market Hill and marches to the war memorial at St Peter and St Paul’s Church, under a rolling road closure. The University of Buckingham is again giving free parking at Ford Meadow car park, and the Old Gaol Museum is free that day with a display of Second World War items. The council has not yet published the times (Buckingham Town Council). Aylesbury’s arrangements are on our Remembrance Sunday page.
• The Stylistics, Sunday 8 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, from £37 (ATG Tickets).
• The Mousetrap, Monday 9 to Saturday 14 November, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Evenings at 7.30pm, with 2.30pm matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, on the play’s 75th anniversary tour. From £15, and every performance still had good availability on 6 October (ATG Tickets).
• National Theatre Live: Golden Boy, Thursday 12 November, 7pm, Norman Bragg Studio. The Almeida production, on screen, ages 15 and up, from £13.50 (ATG Tickets).
• Marquee Square Heroes: Brief Encounter, Saturday 14 November, 8pm, Norman Bragg Studio. The band’s new production after their 2025 show marking 40 years of Misplaced Childhood, from £20 (ATG Tickets).
• The Sunday Market, Sunday 15 November, 11am to 4pm, Market Square, the November date of the monthly artisan market (Buckinghamshire Council).
• Justice?, Sunday 15 November, 2pm, Norman Bragg Studio. Jeff Rozelaar’s documentary drama on two controversial murder cases of the early 1950s, from £14.50, availability low (ATG Tickets).
• Miriam’s Full English LIVE, Sunday 15 November, 7.30pm, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Miriam Margolyes on her new book about England. Sold out on 6 October (ATG Tickets).
• Burlesque The Musical, Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 November, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Evenings at 7.30pm with 2.30pm matinees on Wednesday and Saturday; ages 12 and up, with strobe lighting and haze. From £24.04 on the Tuesday to Thursday shows and £33.65 on Friday and Saturday (ATG Tickets).

Regular events

• Aylesbury market, every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 9am to 2pm, Market Square, HP20 2HZ. Fruit, flowers and clothes, and on Fridays the Foodie Friday market adds fresh produce, baked goods and street food. Saunders Markets runs it for Buckinghamshire Council (Buckinghamshire Council).
• Buckingham street market, every Tuesday and Saturday, 8am to 4pm, by the Old Gaol (Buckingham Town Council).
• Aylesbury parkrun, every Saturday at 9am, free. Runners gather on the fields opposite Quarrendon and Meadowcroft Community Centre, HP19 9HH, and walk about 500 metres to the start at 8.50am. Register once before your first run (parkrun).
• Acoustic Open Mic Night, the second Sunday of each month, next on 11 October, in the QPAC bar. Doors 6pm, performances from 6.30pm, free with donations welcome (Queens Park Arts Centre).
• Waterside Singers, every Wednesday at 10.30am, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. A new weekly singing group, open to all, £7 a session; next on 7 October (ATG Tickets).
• Books and Boogie, every Tuesday at 11.15am, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. Music and story classes for babies from 3 to 24 months and their grown-ups, £10; on today, 6 October, then 13 October (ATG Tickets).
• Discover Ducks for under 5s runs on selected Thursdays in term time. After 8 October the next sessions are 22 October and 12 November (Discover Bucks Museum).

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