The Concerts

BLUES FOR UKRAINE
Concerts

BLUES FOR UKRAINE

Thursday, June 11 • 7:00 PM Market Hall Performing Arts Centre Blues for Ukraine is more than a concert. It’s part eyewitness account, part humanitarian reckoning, and part night of music in service of something […]

Community

Why Jethro’s Mattered
Community

Why Jethro’s Mattered

Jethro’s Bar + Stage closing is not just another downtown business shutting its doors. It is the latest reminder that Peterborough still loves live music, but has become a much harder town in which to […]

Miss Advice

Miss Advice… Any Questions?
Miss Advice

Miss Advice… Any Questions?

Dear Miss Advice,It’s April in Peterborough and I made the mistake of putting my winter coat away. Now I’m cold, damp, and furious. Was that naive?— Seasonally Betrayed in the North End Dear Betrayed,Yes. Deeply […]

The Interviews

interview: Murray McLauchlan
Interviews

interview: Murray McLauchlan

(February 2020) Murray began writing songs and performing them in his late teens. Hanging around the coffeehouses of Toronto he was also a staple performer on the folk festival circuit where he rubbed shoulders and […]

In The Clubs

The Sadies
Concerts

The Sadies

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2026 • 8:00 PM Market Hall Performing Arts Centre Colder Streams sounds like what happens when a great band refuses to rush the important stuff. For The Sadies, deadlines have always mattered […]

THEATRE

New Stages presents Clyde’s
Theatre

New Stages presents Clyde’s

Sunday, June 14 • 7:00 PM Historic Market Hall From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright behind Sweat, Clyde’s is a sharp, funny, unexpectedly tender comedy set inside a truck-stop sandwich shop—one of those fluorescent-lit corners of […]

Comedy

Women Fully Clothed
Comedy

Women Fully Clothed

Apr 23, 2026 7:30 PM Showplace Performance Centre After selling out theatres in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Edinburgh, and a whole trail of lucky towns in between, Jayne Eastwood (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hairspray, Dawn […]

Horror Scopes

HorrorScopes: April 2026
Horror Scopes

HorrorScopes: April 2026

Aries April hands you a fresh start and you immediately treat it like a demolition derby. You’re full of energy, confidence, and just enough self-awareness to ignore all three. You’ll start something bold — a […]

Indie Spotlight

Caitlin O’Connor
Spotlight

Caitlin O’Connor

In Peterborough, where the local music scene survives on hustle, chemistry, and whoever’s still standing by the second set, Caitlin O’Connor has carved out a place by doing the work. She fronts The Detention Club, […]

Local Politics

The Arts

JoEllen Brydon: Elizabeth Thompson Advises
Art

JoEllen Brydon: Elizabeth Thompson Advises

April 18, 2026 – June 14, 2026 Art Gallery of Peterborough Guest curated by Rhona Wegner Jean Armstrong Brydon was born and raised on a fruit farm in Beamsville, Ontario, but she entered public life […]

Dining