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Public Energy Performing Arts is presenting "Finding Home: A Salmon Journey Upstream," a theatre show geared to young audiences aged 5 to 12 produced by Animacy Theatre Collective and Theatre Direct Canada, at the Peterborough Theatre Guild on May 9, 2026. Created and performed by Alexandra Simpson and Morgan Brie Johnson and featuring puppetry, clown, dance, and live music, the show follows two Lake Ontario salmon who make the challenging journey up the Humber River. (Photo: Kathryn Hanson)

Public Energy adds family-friendly theatre performance about friendship and growing up to close 2025-26 season

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Award-winning 'Finding Home: A Salmon Journey Upstream' comes to the Peterborough Theatre Guild for one public performance only on May 9.
Jazz takes over the Black Horse Pub in downtown Peterborough on Saturday night as International Jazz Day Peterborough presents jazz vocalist Carling Stephen followed by the Curtis Cronkwright Quartet featuring Chris Gale on saxophone, Nathan Hiltz on guitar, Duncan Hopkins on bass, and Peterborough's own Curtis Cronkwright on drums. (Graphics: Black Horse Pub)

nightlifeNOW – April 23 to 29

encoreNOW for April 20, 2026 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Goddo at Peterborough's Showplace, Rob Phillips and Carling Stephen at the Black Horse during the International Jazz Day Peterborough's Dine with Jazz series (photo by Andy Carroll), a screening of the 1921 silent film "Through the Back Door" at Lindsay's Academy Theatre, The Weber Brothers at Peterborough's Market Hall and Lindsay's Academy Theatre, "Paul and Linda Plan A Threesome" at Peterborough's Market Hall, and the Kawartha String Orchestra at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – April 20, 2026

Jared Nathan and Blair "TheHandy" Williams, both Toronto comedians living with disability, are the founders of Disability Privilege Productions, which aims to make comedy more accessible and inclusive. The company is bringing its "Laughs Without Limits" stand-up comedy show to The Theatre on King in downtown Peterborough on April 25, 2026. Hosted by Blair and headlined by Jared, the show will also feature comedians Tia Percy and Todd Blenkhorn. (Photo courtesy of Disability Privilege Productions)

Disability Privilege Productions brings inclusive stand-up comedy to Peterborough with ‘Laughs Without Limits’

The Peterborough Musicians Benevolent Association's monthly Deluxe Live music event on Saturday afternoon at The Social Pub in downtown Peterborough features Havelock bluesman Al Lerman, founder of the Juno award-winning band Fathead, performing with his longtime Fathead bandmate Bob "Omar" Tunnoch on bass along with Gary Peeples on guitar and Al Black on drums. Sam Allison aka Lotus Wight, who was nominated as Stan Rogers Traditional Singer of the Year at the 2026 Canadian Folk Music Awards, will open the show. (Photo via PMBA / Facebook)

nightlifeNOW – April 16 to 22

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