Ancaster Sewing Academy aims to provide affordable and fun sewing classes for the community, run by professional theatre seamstress and Costume Studies BA Jaida Lapsley. Beginner Sewing focuses on the basics of both hand and machine sewing, ensuring proper technique and neat stitches. Students will learn basic alteration skills such as hemming, taking in pants, sewing buttons, and patching holes. Intermediate Sewing reviews and then builds on these basics, teaching more advanced stitches and alteration techniques and delving into pattern adjustments. Both classes culminate in creating a finished product to take home. Classes are recommended for teens and adults, but open to all ages provided you feel you can keep up with the lessons. Each session is one hour in length, and this course runs for four weeks at the same time each Wednesday. Materials and machines are provided.
Ancaster Sewing Academy aims to provide affordable and fun sewing classes for the community, run by professional theatre seamstress and Costume Studes BA Jaida Lapsley. Beginner Sewing focuses on the basics of both hand and machine sewing, ensuring proper technique and neat stitches. Students will learn basic alteration skills such as hemming, taking in pants, sewing buttons, and patching holes. Intermediate Sewing reviews and then builds on these basics, teaching more advanced stitches and alteration techniques and delving into pattern adjustments. Both classes culminate in creating a finished product to take home. Classes are recommended for teens and adults, but open to all ages provided you feel you can keep up with the lessons. Each session is one hour in length, and this course runs for four weeks at the same time each Wednesday. Materials and machines are provided.
This Youth Series show features young performers from our Stage 2: Junior Broadway Summer Camp. Students in grades 5-8 showcase their growing talents in this exciting production.
This August, Theatre Ancaster invites you to experience A Chorus Line, the groundbreaking, Tony Award–winning musical that redefined Broadway and became a cultural phenomenon.
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.
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
$65+HST
Come celebrate with the King! Steve Michaels has spent decades building one of the world’s most respected Elvis careers. “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Love Me Tender” are in the hands of a performer who gets them right. You’d be hard pressed to find a performer who gets Elvis quite like Michaels.
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.
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
$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
$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
$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.
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
