There’s a hidden gem that lies beneath the main auditorium at Showplace.
Our 650-capacity performance hall is well-known to our community as a stunning, tiered, professional soft-seat theatre that’s been host to a great myriad of world-class talent.
Showplace’s hidden gem: The Nexicom Studio
Help hand back childhood to Tanna and other kids living with arthritis
Tanna isn’t asking for much — she just wants her childhood back.
At an age when her life should be brimming with activity, the 10-year-old Peterborough girl is a spectator; watching from the sidelines as she battles a form of arthritis that rarely afflicts children. Tanna wants to do the things kids do — the simple act of writing is painful — but she can’t without severe pain and very often the bleak prospect of days of recovery.
Coming home – a review of Of the Fields, Lately
The Peterborough Theatre Guild ends their regular season this month with a production of David French’s Of the Fields, Lately. Directed by John and Nora Martyn, Of the Fields, Lately is a family melodrama set in Toronto dealing with a range of emotions including grief, loss, pride and the fragility of family bonds.
A review of Three One Act Plays by Alice Gerstenberg
This weekend at The Theatre on King, director Ryan Kerr presents Three One Act Plays by Alice Gerstenberg. The night of short plays by the early 20th-century American feminist playwright includes “He Said and She Said”, “The Illuminati in Dramatis Libre”, and Gerstenberg’s most famous play “Overtones”.
Why winter is the best time to prune your fruit trees and shrubs
This time of year, many gardeners dream of stepping our bare feet onto fresh grass and sinking our hands into warm soil. If you just can’t wait to get out in the garden, you’ll be happy to know that winter is actually the best time bundle up and get outside to prune your fruit trees, and to learn some new skills about how to prune effectively.
More green power for Peterborough coming this summer
The new $30 million hydroelectric generating station on Peterborough’s Otonabee River, adjacent to the existing London Street Generating Station, is expected to come online by the end of June 2016.
Win free tickets from kawarthaNOW to see Hawksley Workman at Showplace
kawarthaNOW is pleased to present Canadian glam rocker Hawksley Workman at Showplace Performance Centre on Friday, April 22nd at 8 p.m.
In partnership with Showplace, we’ll be giving away several pairs of tickets to see Hawksley perform.
Game changer: Dr. Bruce Empringham
Dr. Bruce Empringham graduated in Medicine from Queen’s University and completed his family practice residency at McMaster University.
After four years in North Bay, Ontario, he took a job as Assistant Medical Director at London Life in 1981.
In 1998, he assumed the role of Vice-President and Medical Director for London Life, Great-West Life and now Canada Life and is now responsible for individual insurance life and living benefits, medical underwriting and medical claims assessment.
He remains active in the insurance industry in North America as past Chair of several organizations and on a number of industry and legislative fronts.
50 years of making family memories at Sir Sam’s in Haliburton
One eye on the sky, the other on the thermometer.
Since 1965, day in and day out, that has been the regimen for the Bishop family. As owners and operators of Sir Sam’s Ski/Ride (1054 Liswood Road, Eagle Lake, Ontario, 705-754-2298), Bob and Noreen, and siblings Rob, Chris, JD, Angela and Steve, have worked side by side with Mother Nature.
An evening of chills and laughs – a review of Double Feature: Monstrandum Corpus Hominis
There’s little connection between When I Sorrow Most by Simon Turner-Semchuk and Sinking’s Better Than Standing Still by Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy. They are different in tone, style, and subject matter. However, they do have a few things in common.
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