The Registry Theatre

Ebullience
2023-07-09 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
presented by Rhapsody Dance Project

Rhapsody Dance Project is a developing local artistic project aimed to provide an opportunity to experienced young adult dancers to explore movement and expression through dance. Our goal is to help dancers who are not affiliated with professional programs to collaborate with peers and participate in the creative process to choreograph, rehearse and perform their own pieces. While we have performed before as guest artists, we are very excited to present our first ever full-length performance this summer. Please join us for an evening of original choreography done by 16 wonderful artists from across the KW region in Rhapsody Dance Project’s inaugural showcase ‘Ebullience’.

Tickets:

$15 General Admission

Tickets available at the door or buy online starting June 19.

East meets West in serenades of dreams تلاقی شرق و غرب در ترنم رویاها
2023-06-24 19:00 - 20:30
Presented by Delojan Choir

A captivating repertoire of songs that beautifully combine well-known western melodies with celebrated Persian poems centered around love, joy, justice, freedom and other humanistic dreams.

Delojan is a Persian community choir consisting of 20 talented members, showcasing their harmonious voices in four-part arrangements.

Tickets: $15

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CANCELLED - Annette Haas - Tribute to Loretta Lynn
2023-06-23 19:30 - 21:30
PLEASE NOTE THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE REBOOKED AT A LATER DATE.

Tickets: $40Available at the door or online

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PRECARIOUS
2023-06-16 19:30 - 21:30
An Evening of Contemporary Dance

Live at The Registry Theatre

Precarious is Dust and Soul Dance Projects’ second annual original contemporary dance performance for the Region of Waterloo. This evening of dance will feature four world premieres by award winning choreographers Allison Cummings, Aria Evans, Nickeshia Garrick and Karen Kaeja. Each work embodies the artistic vision of these powerful femme artists. These works will take the viewer on a journey, from the artists’ perspective on death and dying, and the struggle to find peace and balance, to the pressure and joy of motherhood and the celebration of femme resilience.

For more information please call 416 786-5270 or email tarabutlerdance@gmail.com.

Tickets: $20

ANATOMY OF THE RECOVERING BRAIN
2023-06-11 14:00
Anatomy of the Recovering Brain is an extended single-movement composition by Frank Horvat for bass clarinet, instrumental cameos, and fixed electronics focussed on bringing awareness to the invisible mental health impacts and struggles of having a brain injury. This piece is inspired by the story of bass clarinetist Kathryn Ladano and her recovery journey. The work brings together many voices of brain injury survivors who describe their challenges and successes in overcoming the prolonged debilitating hardships of their brain injuries.

All proceeds from this event will benefit NUMUS, Brain Injury Association of Waterloo Wellington, and the Ontario Brain Injury Association.

Tickets: $50

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The Next Episode
2023-06-08 19:00 - 21:00
Presented by Growing in the Arts

Join us for our Year-End Theatre Recital.

Tickets:

$20 Adult$15 Youth

Tickets available at the door or via email at gita.tickets@gmail.com.

Different is Good - The Musical!
2023-06-06 19:00
Presented by Carousel Theatre Company

Come join the Carousel Theatre Company for our newest production which follow the journey of a penguin. The dancing, music, dramatics and humour are sure to delight the audience in this brand new performance, created, written and arranged by the company members.

Tickets: $15

Purchase tickets at the door, or call Carousel at 519-746-8877Or purchase from a CTC member.

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COUNTERSTASIS TRIO WITH SPECIAL GUEST KATHRYN LADANO
2023-06-04 20:00 - 22:00
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

Counterstasis is a collaborative improvisation trio formed in 2016, featuring Glen Hall (woodwinds, electroacoustics), Bill Gilliam (piano, prepared piano) and Joe Sorbara (drums, percussion). We work to counter stasis, to foster change, to create a music in which our individual voices can be refracted through the sounds of our co-conspirators.

Our spontaneously composed explorations of gestures and sonorities are connected to new chamber music, free jazz, sound art, experimental, and other creative music traditions. Counterstasis draws on a wide variety of traditional and extended techniques and employs both conventional and bent approaches to melodicism, groove, and chromatic harmony.

In 2019, we released our inaugural CD “Counterstasis – Refracted Voices”, produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. Our music has been featured by All That Jazz, Electric Sense, One Man’s Jazz radio and Dispersion Lab. As a trio and collaborating with other improvising musicians, we have performed at venues in Toronto and Montreal including shows with guest improvisors such as clarinetist Lori Freedman and vocalist Christine Duncan.

Dr. Kathryn Ladano has established herself as one of Canada’s foremost bass clarinetists. As a specialist of contemporary music and free improvisation, Ladano is a dynamic soloist and in-demand collaborator. She is currently the Artistic Director of NUMUS concerts, the Director of ICE (Improvisation Concerts Ensemble) and instructor of improvisation at Wilfrid Laurier University. Kathryn has released two solo albums, “Open” (2010) and “Masked” (2019).

Tickets:

$25 General Admission$5 with Valid Student ID

Available at the door or in advance at openears.ca

MELODY MCKIVER
2023-06-03 20:00 - 22:00
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

Melody McKiver is a electro-violist and composer based in Treaty #1, Winnipeg Manitoba. They are an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Music in the Desaultels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, and a member of Obishikokaang First Nation in neighbouring Treaty #3. Quoted by the CBC as “the Anishinaabe musician changing the way we think about the viola.” Melody will bring their unique sounds to the Open Ears stage in an evening of original material.

Tickets:

$25 General Admission$5 with Valid Student ID

Available at the door or in advance at openears.ca

MEDUSA
2023-06-03 13:00 - 15:00
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

Medusa is a unique chamber-folk quartet that blends the Western string quartet (violin, viola and cello), with Polish knee fiddles, Greek lira, and Swedish Nyckelharpa. We intertwine the sounds of Middle Eastern, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Eastern European music to create something entirely new. The instruments we play on are incredibly rare around the world. There is no other string band in existence with this highly unusual combination of instruments or with such a wide range of repertoire. Made up of musicians both classically trained and immersed in traditional music from different cultures, Medusa brings you an experience like no other. Medusa made its debut at the Small World Music Festival in 2020, and has since been enthralling and delighting audiences at the BLOK Eastern European Festival (Toronto), the 4elements Living Arts Festival (Manitoulin Island), the Hidden Kingdom Festival (livestream from Bhutan), and the TSO 100th Anniversary Open House at Roy Thomson Hall, among others. Medusa EP is coming out this spring.

Tickets:

$25 General Admission$5 with Valid Student ID

Available at the door or in advance at openears.ca

YANG CHEN AND GUESTS PRESENTS
2023-06-02 19:00 - 22:00
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places Records, a label known for embracing young, vibrant artists operating loosely within the bounds of contemporary composition. longing for _ includes collaborations with one of People Places’ head honchos, guitarist-composer Andrew Noseworthy alongside other respected (and largely emerging) talent such as Yaz Lancaster, Connie Li, Jason Doell, Sara Constant, Sarian Sankoh, Stephanie Orlando and Charles Lutvak. On it, Chen performs on everything from bicycle to steel pan evoking styles that span elegiac R&B to full-on electroacoustic abstraction.

Tickets:

$25 General Admission$5 with Valid Student ID

Available at the door or in advance at openears.ca

PORTAL DANCE PRESENTS: THE RETURNED
2023-06-01 20:00 - 22:00
Part of the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound

Featuring music by Ben Grossman and Jeff Bird, The Returned is a new contemporary dance work that seeks to understand the time and place in which we currently live, as well as the time that came before. Portal Dance dancers uncover these “fossil memories” by exploring shades of memory, forms of recovery, cellular history, individual body maps and what haunts us as humans. The Returned is curious about the cyclical nature of time and how what we see & know to be true in this moment is perhaps merely a frame within a revolving timeline that weaves but ultimately circles synthesizing us to returning atoms, molecules of memories…

Tickets:

$25 General Admission$5 with Valid Student ID

Available at the door or in advance at openears.ca

Onion Honey Album Release Concert
2023-05-27 19:30
Kitchener’s favourite local old-time folk band are excited to release their new original album, Foul Weather Friends! They’ll be performing the songs from the album as well as gospel singalongs, classic country and old-time covers, and vintage Onion Honey favourites.

Masks highly encouraged!

$20 with album included or PWYC

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Live from The Registry! It's Saturday Morning!
2023-05-27 10:00 - 12:00
Do you love Working Moms, Baroness Von Sketch and Kids in the Hall?

Do you want to explore script writing with other funny people, like we do?

Then put on your big funny pants (not really), wait…yes please wear pants, all the pants! And join us!

Playground: Comedy Collective Edition!

When: Saturday May 27th, 2023 10am – 12pm

Where: The Registry Theatre (122 Frederick Street Kitchener)

In this newly envisioned relaunch of Playground we are focusing on the craft of writing comedy scripts. Our goal is to create a safe space to be creative with like-minded, comedy obsessed people and get the feel for what a writers room is like, how to write collectively and make funny happen!

Wanna laugh your pants off? (seriously keep them on!)

Email us at : canadiancomedycollective@gmail.com

Please connect with us by: Sunday May 14th, 2023 (as space is limited)

THE BEGGARS BANQUET: A Rolling Stones Songbook
2023-05-25 20:00
Celebrate, dance, and enjoy! – The Music of The Rolling Stones with the band, The Beggars Banquet, and special guests at the Registry Theatre! The Beggars Banquet blokes are tuned up and ready to get “Right back at it!” The Beggars Banquet is one of the best Rolling Stones Revues around – as their audiences have said over the years, “Close your eyes, and you can’t tell the difference.” The front line of this powerfully accurate revue consists of bandleader and world-renowned guitar player – Mike ‘Mudfoot’ McDonald, as KEEF “Keith Richards.” Beggars Banquet’s lead vocalist is one of North America’s premier interpreters of the vocal styling of legendary Mick Jagger. He has earned a solid reputation as a singer and performer. He has entertained thousands on countless stages for nearly 35 years and has devoted himself exclusively to portraying the legendary Rolling Stones frontman. Channelling the complete essence of the Rolling Stones Frontman – Glenn Pelletier, as your “Mick Jagger.”

Doors open at 7PM

19+ this event is licensed.

Tickets: $28.25

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Over The Moon’s Chinook Waltz Tour
2023-05-24 19:30 - 22:00
Presented by Over The Moon

Alberta’s JUNO nominated roots/swing duo “Over The Moon” are totally immersed in real cowboy country. Their music is a wild ride from 40’s western swing and Appalachian old time, to cowboy blues, all featuring their meant-to-be vocals and multiple acoustic instruments. Simple and sweet, their music speaks of the Canadian west.

They will be joined by Paul Chapman on acoustic guitar, Burke Caroll on pedal steel and dobro and Rob Asselstien on piano and accordion. Also opening the show will be Kitchener’s own Paul Schultz!

Doors open: 7:00pm

Tickets: $25 + GST

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MISCHIEF THEATRE
2023-05-18 19:00 - 21:00
Presented by Growing in the Arts

A determined group of actors must battle against technical gaffes, forgotten lines, and sabotaging scenery in a quest to arrive all in one piece at the final curtain call.

May 18 + 19, 7PM

Tickets

Adult $20, Youth $15 (Appropriate for grade 4 and up)

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GALLERY PLAYERS OF NIAGARA
2023-05-14 15:00 - 17:30
Transformations

Classics at The Registry

Orchestral music transformed for five. Daniel Warren arranges Piazzolla’s Street Tango, and Franz Lehar’s Lippen Schweigen. Trevor Wagler reimagines Haydn’s The Clock, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

Julie Baumgartel violin, Margaret Jordan-Gay cello, James Mason oboe, Peter Shackleton clarinet, Anna Ronai piano. Special guest soprano Maria Vetere.

Ticketing Info for Classics at The Registry:

$30 General Admission

$25 Seniors

12 and under get in free!

Series Passes

$100 Regular 4-Concert Series Pass

$80 Senior 4-Concert Series Pass

Call 519-578-1570 or Buy Tickets Online

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Joe Crookston
2023-05-13 20:00 - 22:00
Folk Night at The Registry

Joe played his first Canadian show at The Registry in 2014, and has become a Folk Night favourite. A multi-instrumentalist, superb songwriter, painter, and tour leader, Joe’s appreciation has spread worldwide. A perfect performer to cap off our 15th season.

Tickets:

$30 At the Door$25 In Advance

JOHN TANK QUARTET
2023-05-12 20:00 - 22:30
JT’s 80th Birthday Concert

Jazz at The Registry

K-W’s own John Tank returns from NYC to celebrate this landmark. A special night featuring some of John’s favourite Canadian sidemen, Bernie Senensky piano, Ted Warren drums, Neil Swainson bass.

Ticketing Info for Jazz at The Registry:

$30 General Admission

$150 6-Concert Series Pass

Call 519-578-1570 or Buy Tickets Online

CANCELLED - GERARD YUN
2023-05-07 15:00 - 17:30
Unfortunately this show has been cancelled. If you are a ticket holder please contact 519-578-1570 to arrange a refund. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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LISTEN TO THE MUSIC BAND
2023-05-06 20:00
a Tribute to the Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers are one of the most iconic Classic Rock bands of all time, having sold millions of albums and topping the charts with great hit songs such as China Grove, Long Train Running, What a Fool Believes, Black Water and, of course, Listen to the Music. After five decades, their music is still in heavy rotation on Classic Rock radio stations world wide.

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC BAND is a tribute to the Doobie Brothers consisting of some of the best musicians and singers in Canada. These highly skilled musicians meticulously reproduce each and every great hit song live to give audiences a true experience of seeing and hearing the Doobie Brothers Band perform live. You will want to see this amazing show over and over again.

Tickets $30

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DIANA PANTON CD RELEASE CONCERT
2023-05-05 20:00 - 22:00
Featuring Don Thompson & special guests Penderecki String Quartet

One Night Only – Live at the Registry!

JUNO Award winning vocalist Diana Panton collaborates with the renowned Penderecki String Quartet to perform a special evening of music from Diana’s colour trilogy, including her latest album Blue. With beautiful string arrangements by the legendary jazz pianist Don Thompson, plus Reg Schwager guitar, and Roberto Occhipinti bass. A one of a kind concert not to be missed.

$37.50 General Admission

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Gamera - The Giant Monster
2023-05-04 20:00 - 22:00
VOC Plays the Movies

Live Soundtrack played by VOC Silent Film Harmonic

1965 Japanese monster movie classic. Starring Godzilla’s sidekick, a giant, fire-breathing turtle. Released from beneath the ice Gamera goes nuclear!

Call 519-578-1570 or Buy Tickets Online

$18 General Admission$12 with Food Bank Donation

SUMMER STOCK at Princess Cinemas
2023-04-23 14:00 - 16:00
Judy Garland Centennial: “C’mon, Get Happy!” Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in MGM’s Entertainment Hit, SUMMER STOCK

Part of A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration

Mary-Catherine Pazzano and John Fricke host a special screening of SUMMER STOCK, one of the most enjoyable of all the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals. This 1950 Technicolor delight showcases the extraordinary Garland and Kelly in two of their signature routines — Judy’s “Get Happy” and Gene’s amazing “newspaper” dance — and includes as well the challenge-dance duet to “The Portland Fancy” (plus “You Wonderful You,” “If You Feel Like Singing, Sing,” “Friendly Star,” and “Happy Harvest”). Additionally, SUMMER STOCK features the comedy expertise and antics of Phil Silvers, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Main, Gloria De Haven, and Hans Conried; it’s pure entertainment for all ages, directed by the masterful Charles Walters. (Also: John offers a brief historical introduction prior to the film, Mary-Catherine joins him for a q&a session after the finale.)

This event is taking place as part of Mary Catherine Pazzano’s “A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration.”

More info: https://www.princesscinemas.com/movie/summer-stock

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE PRINCESS CINEMAS IN UPTOWN WATERLOO!

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ŠUMSKA ZAVRZLAMA
2023-04-23 11:30 - 12:30
(Forest Tangles)

Performance for kids. Presented in Serbian.Performance is an hour long.

Adults: $34.50 Children: $29.50

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