Stage 3 Reopening Guidelines
This is a high-level overview of BPAC’s Stage 3 reopening strategy. Other detailed strategies are being developed to meet requirements as time goes on. Information is subject to change based on updated guidelines from Public Health.
BPAC COVID-19 Update
The Burlington Performing Arts Centre remains closed as per the Ontario Government directive to protect against COVID-19. Staff are currently working remotely. We are doing our best to ensure we stay connected with you and continue to plan forward. All…
Backstage with Canadian Quartet The Dreamboats
It is a challenging time for the performing artists we love and support, but Canadian quartet The Dreamboats are doing what they know best: sharing their love of music to bring a sense of comfort and entertainment during this challenging…
The Show Must Go On: Old Man Flanagan’s Ghost
It is a challenging time for the performing artists we love and support, but artists like Old Man Flanagan’s Ghost are doing what they know best: sharing their love of performing live Celtic music to audiences in innovative ways to…
Backstage with “Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter” Author & Performer Alison Wearing
"I have a confession… Alison Wearing’s Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter is one of my all-time favourite solo theatre shows. It is one of the warmest, smartest, funniest true stories of familial love and acceptance that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. I think…
Backstage with Comedians & Supermoms Shoshana Sperling and Lisa Brooke: “I Look at Her and Either Want to Cry Cause I Love Her So Much or Make Her Laugh and Mess Up Her Lines”
Shoshana Sperling and Lisa Brooke are comedic artists, best friends, and supermoms "ready to party like it's 1999" at Feel the Burl — a comedy cabaret series that they are co-hosting at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre on Friday, January…
Backstage with Local Country Artist Hayley Verrall: “I Knew My Purpose in This World Was to Create Music and Positively Impact as Many Lives as Possible”
Local Country Artist Hayley Verrall, a driven, passionate, and eclectic award-winning country singer/songwriter from Burlington, Ontario, is a familiar face at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre — you may recognize her as our local pre-show entertainment before Burton Cummings’s performance back in…
Music, Storytelling, and Wartime Brooklyn: Backstage with Creator of “Bohemians in Brooklyn” Tom Allen
Tom Allen is the host of Shift on CBC Radio 2, hosts concerts across Canada, plays the trombone, creates a series of shows alongside harpist Lori Gemmell called Chamber Musicals (including “Bohemians in Brooklyn”) and is the author of three…