Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment

Juno award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Hawksley Workman performs at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough on May 23, 2019. (Publicity photo)

musicNOW – May 2019

Toronto alt-rockers Future History (Kevin Ker, Justin Dillon, Todd Larter, Sarah Carmosino, and Braedon Garret) will be performing at The Twisted Wheel in downtown Peterborough on Saturday, May 11th in support of their new record "For", with special guests Say Ritual and Tijuana Jesus. (Photo: Mike Guymer)

nightlifeNOW – May 9 to 15

New Stages Theatre Company presents a staged reading of Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch's "What a Young Wife Ought to Know" on May 12, 2019 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre in downtown Peterborough. Moscovitch was inspired by a collection of letters written in the 1920s by real women and men to family planning pioneer Dr. Marie Stopes, who co-founded Britain's first family planning clinic ("The Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control") in North London in 1921. (Public domain photo)

‘What a Young Wife Ought to Know’ explores the life of...

Retiring from touring after more than 40 years, Sharon Hampson and Bram Morrison will be performing in "Sharon, Bram & Friends: 40th Anniversary Farewell Tour" at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on May 15, 2019. (Publicity photo)

Sing ‘Skinnamarink’ one last time with Sharon & Bram at Showplace...

Eighteen artists and art advocates have been nominated for six Peterborough Arts Awards, including musician Washboard Hank, one of three nominees for Outstanding Senior Artist, and The Theatre on King and Fleshy Thud founder Ryan Kerr, one of three nominees for Arts Catalyst. (Photos courtesy of Washboard Hank and Andy Carroll for Public Energy)

Shortlist announced for second annual Peterborough Arts Awards

Oshawa folk-rock singer-songwriter Hunter Sheridan will be performing a mix of originals and covers at the Next Door in downtown Peterborough on Friday, May 3rd, and will return on Sunday, May 12th to perform at the Black Horse. (Photo: Sandra Ivaz / kninvu.com)

nightlifeNOW – May 2 to 8

Ennismore singer-songwriter Melissa Payne and her new band (Kate Suhr, Marcel Rousseau, Derek Downham, Ian McKeown, and Jordan Rousseau) recently performed tunes from her soon-to-be-released new album "Darker Than Your Dark" at a concert at Knox Farm, a private converted barn north of Peterborough operated by music producer and event designer James McKenty and his wife Kellie. (Photo: Knox Farm Series / YouTube)

Melissa Payne debuts ‘1000 Pieces’, the first single from her new...

In Enter Stage Right's original production "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Taite Cullen (centre) is Carter Abbotsford, president of the Alpha Omega Psi sorority at Everleigh College, which is in competition with the Phi Beta Sigma for pledges. Things get more interesting when two homeless frat boys (Isaac Martin and Russell Wideman, not pictured) find a loophole that allows them to pledge to a sorority. Aslo pictured are Eden Ferris (left) as the exasperated Alpha Omega vice president Erica Sloane and Victoria Bell as the annoying fact-quoting Tiffany. The show runs from May 1st to 4th in the auditorium at PCVS in Peterborough. (Photo: Enter Stage Right)

Peterborough high school students go to college in ‘A Good Man...

A detail from Nicole Bauberger's 'Highway 7 between Ottawa and Peterborough' (2018, oil on panel) from her "Get There from Here" exhibit currently on display at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. (Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery of Peterborough)

artNOW – May 2019

Comedian Deborah Kimmett explores aging and ageism and explains how to survive ghosting and mansplaining in her latest show "Downward Facing Broad". She performs in the Nexicom Studio at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough on June 6, 2019. Musician Kim Pollard will open and provide musical accompaniment throughout the show. (Publicity photo)

Comedian Deborah Kimmett takes on aging in her hilarious new show

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