New Stages brings Peterborough audiences
the best of contemporary professional theatre.
Our 25th anniversary season is now on sale.
the best of contemporary professional theatre.
Our 25th anniversary season is now on sale.
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A CELEBRATION
Narrated by Beth McMaster Fri Nov. 25, 2022, 7:30 pm Stephen Sondheim was the most profound influence on musical theatre in the past century. On the one-year anniversary of his death, please join us for an unforgettable night of music as some of Canada’s best performers gather to celebrate Sondheim’s life and music, and the way his influence has shaped us all. A musical concert at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. |
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EVERY BRILLIANT THING
by Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe Starring Steve Ross. Directed by Linda Kash Wed Jan 18 – Sat Jan 21, 2023, 7:30 pm Sun Jan 22, 2023, 2:00 pm Our sold-out 2020 production of Every Brilliant Thing returns! Join us for a unique theatre experience, as a man makes a list of every brilliant thing in the world to convince his mother that life is still worth living. A perfect play for our times, Steve Ross is simply remarkable in this life-affirming story of holding onto hope in the face of crisis. A full production at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. |
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NEW MAGIC VALLEY FUN TOWN
by Daniel MacIvor Sun Mar 26, 2023, 7:30 pm One of Canada’s greatest playwrights brings us a remarkable new work. In Cape Breton, best friends from childhood reunite after 25 years apart and spend an evening full of laughter, regrets, and revisiting uncomfortable memories that can’t be washed away. A funny and hope-filled play about the long shadow of childhood trauma and reconciling the person you once were with the person you want to be today. A staged reading at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. |
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THE SECRET MASK
by Rick Chafe Starring Randy Read Sun May 7, 2023, 7:30 pm Nominated for the Governor-General’s Award, this moving play is about man who loses his language and finds his son. When a BC man is hospitalized with a stroke that leaves him with aphasia, he is reunited with his reluctant son from Winnipeg whom he walked out on 40 years ago. Told with a deft comic touch, a father and son learn to communicate amid fractured memories and fragile language. A staged reading at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. |
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SWEAT
by Lynn Nottage Sun June 11, 2023, 7:30 pm Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. A chilling and timely play about a group of colleagues whose fortunes decline between 2000 and the 2008 financial crisis. A devastating account of American industrial collapse and the racial and class tensions that shatter the surface when people become desperate and feel their backs are against the wall. A staged reading at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. |
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New Stages Theatre 136 Ware Street #307 Peterborough ON K9J 2B8 705.872.7438 [email protected] |