A deeply tender portrait of enduring love, On Golden Pond follows Ethel and Norman Thayer as they return once more to their beloved summer home.
19+ only. No extreme, nudity, Just extreme hilarity! The Comic Strippers are a fictitious male stripper troupe, played by a cast of some of Canada’s best improvisational comedians. These guys try to be sexy… it just comes out funny. Constantly grooving and gyrating, in between scenes they banter with the crowd and perform their sexylarious twist on improv sketches. They sing, they “dance;” these guys are oiled up and ready to make you laugh. Women often say the most attractive thing about a man is his sense of humour - so ladies, these stripped-down comedians are sure to make your head explode. And not to worry, gentlemen, this is definitely a parody of male strippers.
Tom Arnold is an actor, writer, and comedian with a career spanning over forty years, appearing in hundreds of hours of television and over one hundred and fifty films. He is best known for roles on Roseanne, True Lies, Nine Months, The Stupids, Carpool, McHale’s Navy, Big Bully, Austin Powers, and Soul Plane. He has hosted Saturday Night Live four times, has had three HBO specials, and starred in four sitcoms. Tom has won a Golden Globe, a Humanitas Award, and a Peabody Award, and has appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Howard Stern, and was a co-host on “The Best Damn Sports Show Period.”
Based on the iconic board game and classic film, Clue is a fast-paced, hilarious murder mystery. When six mysterious guests gather at a secluded mansion, murder is on the menu. With everyone hiding secrets and the body count rising, they must discover who did it, where—and with what!
The Tony Award®-winning musical Come From Away is a story of kindness in the face of tragedy.
Theatre Ancaster is proud to present the Lux Radio Theatre’s 1947 production of Miracle on 34th Street, our annual “Radio Show” Christmas benefit for the Ancaster Community Services.
This Seniors Series show features performers aged 55+ from our Classics Company: Musical program. Members showcase their talents as they present their versions of well-known musicals.
This Youth Series show features our young performers from the Stage 2: Junior Broadway program. Students in grades 5-8 have their chance to showcase their growing talents in this exciting production.
This Youth Series show features our young performers from the Stage 3: The Young Company program. Students in grades 9-12 have their chance to showcase their growing talents in this exciting production.
This Seniors Series show features performers aged 55+ from our Classics Company: Play program. Members showcase their talents as they present original plays.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50 after taxes and fees
JoyRide brings together two of Canada’s most inventive performers for an evening that moves at the speed of pure delight. Oboist Colin Maier - a member of the world-touring ensemble Quartetto Gelato, with a résumé that runs from the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony to Cirque du Soleil - trades classical formality for playful abandon, weaving jazz, tango, klezmer, and Romani influences into music built for connection, not just admiration. At the piano is Mark Camilleri, a music director and arranger whose credits include Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, and Il Divo, matching Maier’s energy with equal parts polish and warmth.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$65+HST
ABBA Revisited brings one of pop music's most spectacular catalogues to the stage on September 26. Touring since 2001, the band has spent more than two decades performing "Dancing Queen," "Mamma Mia," "Waterloo," "Take a Chance on Me," and the rest of the songs that have refused to leave the radio for fifty years.
Voortman Studio Theatre
Live Concerts
$30+HST
Bend it like Beck started as a fundraiser set built around Jeff Beck's music, but the chemistry in the room & audience reaction couldn’t possibly stay contained to one night. Frank Koren and Chris Wheeler, exceptional local guitarists with a "Beck-ish" style, brought in bassist Andrew Marshall and drummer Matt Burns, and the group headed into Boxcar Studio in Hamilton to record their original debut, All Roads Lead To E, live off the floor. What followed was a full-fledged live act, now expanded to seven pieces with the addition of vocalists Matty Simpson and Sandra Bouza. Last summer the band recorded a second original album, Take My Heart And Burn, and both records are streaming now for anyone who wants a preview before the show.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$65+HST
Led by Juno Award-winning musical director Lance Anderson, we celebrate 50 years of “The Last Waltz” documentary with famed live concert act The Last Waltz - A Musical Celebration of THE BAND.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$57
Join the legendary Deke Sharon, 'Father of Contemporary A Cappella', to learn and sing a song from the famous movie franchise.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50 after taxes and fees
Formed in Toronto in 2015 and named for the “Norse god’s restless hunger for knowledge,” the Odin Quartet has built its reputation on pairing string-quartet tradition with curiosity: commissioning new Canadian works, serving since 2018 as Ensemble-in-Residence for the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, and drawing acclaim at festivals across the country. For Halloween Hauntings, that exploratory spirit twists toward the eerie: a program of festive, shadowy repertoire delivered with all the technical polish and interpretive depth the quartet brings to any classical masterwork.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$160
2026-2027: THE MARQUEE SEASON! Sinfonia Ancaster and Music Director Jeffrey Pollock invite you to The Marquee Season — a year where every concert is a headline event! This season, we celebrate elite artistry through a curated lineup of world-class guests and celebratory collaborations, right in Peller Hall. Purchase all four (4) concerts now and SAVE 20% off single ticket prices!
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50
Guest conductor: Daniel Warren! Join us for an atmospheric evening led by guest conductor Daniel Warren. The eerie power of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, the dramatic intensity of Berlioz’s March to the Scaffold, the soaring wonder of William’s Music from E.T…..and more! *Hallowe’en costumes encouraged – add your own touch of flair to this exhilarating and memorable evening!
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
Providing a masterful presentation of Eagles classic hits and Don Henley favourites with its rock n’ roll game-changing song catalogue, Epic Eagles has earned its place among the top drawing tribute acts in North America and is widely regarded as the finest Eagles tribute show in production today.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$112
This fall, Matthew Good & His Band with the Kevin Fox String Quartet take the stage in a uniquely immersive live experience, joined by a stunning string quartet led by renowned cellist Kevin Fox.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$65+HST
Pearl is built around one of rock’s most singular voices. Fronted by Christina Leroux and backed by a 9-piece band, the show draws from Cheap Thrills, I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, and Pearl, bringing Janis Joplin’s music back to the stage through songs like “Piece of My Heart,” “Cry Baby,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.”
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$40
Jeffrey Pollock, conductor. Kick off the season with our popular holiday concert. A celebration of traditional favourites, including a sing along and a few surprises! Ellington - Nutcracker Suite. Special Guests: The Jazz Connection Big Band. PLEASE NOTE THIS PERFORMANCE IS ONE HOUR IN LENGTH
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50
Jeffrey Pollock, conductor. Kick off the season with our annual sell-out Christmas concert, packed with family favourites and singalongs. The Jazz Connection Big Band will add a fresh take to our annual tradition, performing Duke Ellington’s swing-infused Nutcracker Suite. Photos with Santa Claus in the lobby before the concert & at intermission! *This concert is included in the Season Subscription
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$93
The Holiday season has always been a wonder for a special someone named Holly Cole. Holly and her band of Merry men will be spreading joy and good cheer in their celebration of the season this year!
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50
Jeffrey Pollock, conductor. This concert turns the spotlight on four winners from our inaugural concerto competition, jointly created by the Hamilton Music Festival and Sinfonia Ancaster. The orchestra joins our young soloists in performances of music by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky. This celebratory evening also features the glittering and evocative colours of Kodály’s Háry János Suite.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50 after taxes and fees
Since forming in New York in 2006 and relocating a year later to study at the Paris Conservatory —as the first American ensemble, and the first including a wind instrument, ever admitted to its celebrated chamber music program— the Zodiac Trio has built an international career around a simple, classically unconventional idea: that clarinet, violin, and piano belong together. Radio France has called them “a breathtaking ensemble of virtuosity and sensitivity,” and in the two decades since, the trio has performed across nearly 40 U.S. states and more than a dozen countries, from The Lincoln Center to Beijing.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
What better way to celebrate Theatre Ancaster's 25th Concert than with some Canadian spirit?
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50
Jeffrey Pollock, conductor. We conclude with a true Command Performance! The lean and energetic Symphony No. 3 of Sibelius sets the stage for Juno Award-winning pianist Philip Chiu’s performance of Beethoven’s triumphant Emperor Concerto.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$50 after taxes and fees
Fair warning: this experience defies easy description. Hearing ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ pairs acclaimed movement artist Trevor Copp of Tottering Biped Theatre with a piano soloist for an experience that’s part concert, part live experiment, and entirely unlike anything else we’ve had in Peller Hall. Movement by movement, Mussorgsky’s beloved Pictures at an Exhibition is performed and reimagined multiple ways: through sound alone, through story, through the body… inviting the audience to discover how differently the same music can be heard depending on how it’s framed. At the end, the audience votes on which approach worked best.
Peller Hall
Live Concerts
$46.72
This Youth Series show features our young performers from the Stage 2 and Stage 3 GLEE programs. Students in grades 5-12 have their chance to showcase their growing talents in this exciting production.
Everywhere Man is a feature-length documentary inspired by musician, producer, and manager Peter Asher’s celebrated cabaret show A Musical Memoir of the ’60s and Beyond.
With his once-promising musical career over due to his sensitivity to sound, gifted young piano tuner Niki White (Leo Woodall) works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
The 21st annual Hamilton Film Festival is here! Join us for our opening day. At 6pm - Gala Walk the red carpet, take some photos, and mingle with the filmmakers at the opening gala of the 21st Annual Hamilton Film Festival! You can also pick up your passes and purchase tickets for all shows. At 8pm - Local Shorts, 90m of movies plus a Q&A after the program. Various genres / Not Rated and some content may not be suitable for younger audiences. Please read the synopsis for each film.
The most fun you will have watching movies at the Hamilton Film Festival! From the minds of the kids to the big screen! Movies from the March Break and Summer Camps, plus a few extras from our young students — approximately one hour, followed by a Q&A with the young filmmakers.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
Film to be announced shortly! Purchase your tickets in advance to claim your seats.
There’s an old saying about biography: It takes a life to study a life. Few people embody that better than Dr. Alan Walker: the Ancaster resident and McMaster University Professor Emeritus whose three-volume, twenty-five-year biography of Franz Liszt and recent extraordinary biography of Frederic Chopin are considered two of the most important works ever written about these great composers. In 2025, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest awarded Walker an honorary doctorate, to add to his earlier award of the Hungarian Knights Cross of Merit in recognition of a lifetime spent uncovering the real stories of classical music’s most dazzling and misunderstood figures.
Using Landscape as a theme, this acrylic painting course will encourage each student to make conscious choices about colour. Not feeling bound to local colour, the students will enjoy the freedom of using colour to create a mood in the painting and to emphasize emotion.
Using Landscape as a theme, this acrylic painting course will encourage each student to make conscious choices about colour. Not feeling bound by Local colour, the students will enjoy the freedom of using colour to create a mood in the painting and to emphasize emotion. ALL MATERIALS ARE INCLUDED
