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encoreNOW for April 21, 2025 features (from left to right, top and bottom) Colin Linden, Tak Kwan with the Kawartha String Orchestra, "Menopause The Musical", Caity Gyorgy, "The Boy in the Moon", and The Shuffle Demons. (kawarthaNOW collage)

encoreNOW – April 21, 2025

The Curtis Cronkwright Quartet features Nathan Hiltz on guitar, Curtis Cronkwright on drums, Duncan Hopkins on bass, and Perry White on saxophone. The jazz quartet performs at The Black Horse in downtown Peterborough on April 26, 2025 as part of International Jazz Day Peterborough celebrations. (kawarthaNOW screenshot of Instagram video)

‘Dine with Jazz’ returns on April 26 as part of International Jazz Day Peterborough celebrations

The historic Capitol Theatre is located at 20 Queen Street in downtown Port Hope. (Photo: Capitol Theatre)

Port Hope’s Capitol Theatre celebrates upcoming summer season from April 21 to 26

Toronto roots musician Isaak Bonk's vintage country-blues, jazz, and ragtime outfit The Roast Chicken Ramblers performs at Jethro's Bar + Stage in downtown Peterborough on Friday night. (Photo: Harvey Kingsley-Elton)

nightlifeNOW – April 17 to 23

Linda Kash, Ian Burns, and Pat Maitland founded klusterfork entertainment in 2019, producing live improv comedy shows as well as workshops for adults, with performers and instructors including local improvisers, Canadian TV and film celebrities, and Second City alumni. The trio have decided to shut down the production company as of May 30, 2025. (Photo: Adam Martignetti)

After five successful seasons, Peterborough’s klusterfork entertainment to shut down as of May 30

An illustration for "My Good Friend Jay", created and performed by Montana Adams of Indian Way Theatre, which is one of the new performances at the 2025 Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival taking place at the Peterborough Theatre Guild from June 19 to 22. In the play, Adams recounts her memories of growing up in Akwesasne, a Mohawk community that straddles Ontario, Quebec, and New York State. While the Canadian and U.S. governments consider the community to be four separate jurisdictions, the residents consider Akwesasne to be a contiguous community despite the difficulties brought on by having to cross borders to visit neighbours. (Illustration: Honni David)

Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival announces artist line-up for 2025 event

In celebration of the bicentennial of the Peter Robinson emigration of Irish settlers to the Peterborough region, Peterborough Musicfest is presenting three Irish-themed concerts from August 2 to 9, 2025: U2 tribute band Acrobat on August 2, Canadian Celtic rockers Mudmen with local fiddler Irish Millie on August 6, and Irish trio The Celtic Tenors on August 9. (Graphic: Musicfest)

Peterborough Musicfest to celebrate Robinson emigration bicentennial with 3 Irish-themed concerts in August

The Theatre On King's artistic administrator Kate Story and artistic director Ryan Kerr in 2017. The pair have announced they are resigning from the black-box theatre that Kerr founded in downtown Peterborough in 2013. (Photo: Sam Tweedle / kawarthaNOW)

The end of an era: Ryan Kerr and Kate Story are resigning from The Theatre On King in Peterborough

New Stages Theatre is presenting a staged reading of Emil Sher's acclaimed real-life drama "The Boy in the Moon", based on Canadian journalist and author Ian Brown's award-winning 2009 memoir of the same name, for one night only on May 3, 2025 at Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. (Graphic: New Stages Theatre)

New Stages brings acclaimed real-life drama ‘The Boy in the Moon’ to the Market Hall in Peterborough

Participants in the Youth Winter Arts Program rehearsing short scenes in preparation for the "Ten for Ten" showcase of 10 short plays at Globus Theatre in Bobcaygeon on May 9, 2025. (Photo: Rebecca Anne Bloom / Globus Theatre)

Young actors bring 10 short plays to the Globus Theatre stage in Bobcaygeon on May 9

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