The Imperial Theatre in Sarnia, Ontario is set to host an exciting lineup of events, offering a vibrant tapestry of music, theatre, and dance. From an award-winning biographical musical about Josephine Baker to a tribute to the legendary Highwaymen, this season promises an eclectic mix of performances. Whether you are a fan of classical music with Sarah Hagen's piano recital or eager to sway to the rhythms of The Irish Rovers, there is something for everyone. Join us as we delve into the highlights of these anticipated performances!

Imperial Theatre's Array of Spectacular Performances: A Journey Through Music, Dance, and Theatre

As March 2025 unfolds, the Imperial Theatre in Sarnia, ON, hosts an eclectic array of performances that promise to entertain and inspire audiences. From the nostalgic tunes of The Irish Rovers to the charismatic storytelling of Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro, each event brings a unique flavor to the stage. This month, patrons can expect a diverse lineup featuring concerts for all ages, powerful theatrical productions, and even an interactive magic show. Join us as we dive into the diverse offerings at the Imperial Theatre this March.

A Theatrical March at Sarnia's Imperial Theatre: Songs, Stories, and Surprises

A story of mistaken identities, over-the-top love triangles, and doors that seemingly have a life of their own! You won’t want to miss the farce that hits every high note and low blow with comedic precision.

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Saint John Theatre Company: Lend Me a Tenor

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Chris Funk’s REDEFINING WONDER is an engaging multimedia experience that has audiences talking and scratching their heads for years to come. Finally, a MAGIC SHOW WITH LIVE MUSIC! Chris has pioneered the use of instruments like the violin, guitar, sax and more into his illusions. His parents wanted him to be a musician, but he wanted to be a magician. Chris tells his story on how he integrated his love for music and magic in a show unlike any other. Whether it’s a violin concerto to a magical dancing sheet of music to impossibly suspending various instruments on stage, his show is in a league of its own. The live-feed camera and interactive videos bring audiences up onstage and into the action, delivering a show that family audiences can call their own.

Chris Funk – Redefining Wonder

It all “Started With a Song” over ten years ago, and ever since, Brett Kissel has had an extraordinary rise to superstardom in the Canadian country music scene. With three Platinum and ten Gold singles, two Gold-certified albums, and 18 Top-10 radio hits, he has become one of the country’s most celebrated artists. ‘The Side You’ve Never Seen’ acoustic tour offers an intimate night of songs and stories that fans won’t want to miss.

Brett Kissel – The Side You’ve Never Seen

O’BRIEN by Thomas Hodd // The O’Brien family are a third-generation Irish family, living and working in Saint John, New Brunswick. It is 1914, and Hap O’Brien, a conductor for the St. John Street Railway Company, is raising two sons with wife Kate. The family is forced to confront the real-world turmoil of social and labour unrest in Saint John, on the eve of the First World War.

Theatre New Brunswick: O’Brien

Choir! Choir! Choir! is the fully interactive, participatory show that turns audience into performer! So get ready to laugh, dance and SING! your hearts out with hundreds of other music-lovers just like you. It’s like a big birthday party for the greatest songs of all time and you’re invited!

Choir! Choir! Choir! Presents: We Will CHOIR! You!: An EPIC QUEEN Sing-Along

Maryna KRUT (pronounced “kroot”) is a Ukrainian singer and virtuoso of the bandura, a stringed instrument unique to Ukraine that looks and sounds like a hybrid of lute and harp. At 28, KRUT is an assured performing artist; her compelling, soulful performances evoke both folk traditions and modern sensibilities, with pop and jazz flourishes. A Eurovision finalist, she often represents Ukraine at official events and performs for soldiers in the current war zone, and she has appeared at the Edinburgh International Culture Summit, Andalucia Big Festival, Montreal Ukrainian Festival, and on other international stages.

Maryna KRUT

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests this is a play to please all tastes. Is that possible?

The Imperial Theatre presents The Crow’s Theatre production of As You Like It, or The Land Acknowledgement By Cliff Cardinal

Mini Pop Kids Live is bringing good vibes across North America with their brand-new, high-energy GOOD VIBES TOUR! This jam-packed concert features songs by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles, Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa, and even includes some favorite throwbacks that EVERYONE will love.  This isn’t just a show, it’s an experience that the whole family will enjoy. Don’t miss your chance to sing, dance and pop with Canada’s best-selling music group for kids! It’s the show for kids by kids… and adults too!

Mini Pop Kids Live

George Millar and Ian Millar, lead singers of The Irish Rovers. George, an Irish Rover all his life, wrote the song, “Hey Boys Sing Us A Song” as a response to the Covid years, and includes the refrain “We all need some happiness back in our lives!” The song is nominated Canadian Folk Music Awards, SINGLE OF THE YEAR.

The Irish Rovers in Concert

VaughnCo Entertainment presents HighwayMen Show – American Outlaws Tribute Concert. In 1984, Johnny Cash invited Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson to play on his Johnny Cash Christmas TV Special that was filmed in Switzerland.  When they got back to the hotel, they started jamming and hanging out and that was how the Highwaymen came to be. The Highwaymen Show pays tribute to the great American Outlaws of Country Music – Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. The Show covers all of the greatest hits including “Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys”, “Always on My Mind”,  “Me and Bobby McGee” and  “Folsom Prison Blues”. Don’t miss this trip down memory lane with the look and sound of these iconic superstars: The entire show will feel like an encore!

HIGHWAYMEN SHOW – American Outlaws Tribute Concert

Learn to swing dance and stay for cocktails and dancing after the class.

Swing Dancing Workshop

“Hansen turns anything and everything into a puppet and makes it funny. A MUST-SEE!” – FringeReviews.com  Watch as Ingrid performs a live puppet film before your very eyes, using only household objects, a camera, and her bare hands.

The Baby Tyler Show

The world’s most authentic tribute to Supertramp with vocal similarity to Roger Hodgson and Rick Davies. An incredible band featuring live clarinet, sax, flute and vintage keyboards (Wurlitzer). A spectacular show that features costume changes and a memorable performance of the album ‘Crime of the Century’ in its entirety, plus all of Supertramp’s biggest hits. A world-class performance that has received standing ovations for all of their theatre shows across North America. A concert not-to-be-missed.

Dreamer: A Supertramp Experience

The  New Brunswick Youth Orchestra  is celebrating 60 years of orchestrating a legacy of excellence by embarking on an extraordinary journey—the  TITAN  Project.

NBYO 60th Anniversary performance

The Eagles Greatest Hits albums played Note for Note / Cut for Cut by some of the most talented studio musicians in Canada.

Classic Albums Live Performs: The Eagles – Greatest Hits

Sarah Hagen brings this classic programme featuring Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations as part of the celebration of the recent release of her recording of the masterwork.

Sarah Hagen: Goldberg Variations

Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play is an international award-winning one-woman biographical musical that combines cabaret, theatre and dance to tell the story of the iconic Josephine Baker, the first African-American international superstar and one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th Century. Josephine has won over 20 awards across several continents, and had a successful off-Broadway run in 2018.

Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play

Alan Cumming (Cabaret, The Good Wife) and Ari Shapiro (NPR’s All Things Considered, Pink Martini)  both transport audiences to other worlds through their stories.  Now, they’re joining forces in SONG.  Witness the critically acclaimed evening of tunes and tall tales titled “Och & Oy! A Considered Cabaret”.  Musical direction by Henry Koperski.

Och & Oy!: A Considered Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro

DUANE ANDREWS‘ music is the product of a great ear, an adventurous spirit and a love of music that is beyond category. Uniting what would seem to be impossible – traditional Newfoundland music with the swing jazz of the legendary Django Reinhardt, Andrews makes it not just work – he makes it soar. The Juno award winning producer, composer, guitarist and globetrotting performer’s latest album is the best evidence yet of his truly unique musical vision and is the sound of him, literally, bringing it all back home.

Duane Andrews and the Hot Club of Conception Bay featuring Ray Legere

Choeur Louisbourg joins Symphony NB once again for a moving performance of the ever popular Requiem by Gabriel Fauré / Guest Artists: Choeur Louisbourg (Monique Richard, Artistic Director) | Kirsten Leblanc, soprano | Samuel Chan, baritone

Symphony New Brunswick: Fauré’s Requiem

For the last thirty two years, THE PEKING ACROBATS® have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control. THE PEKING ACROBATS are often accompanied by live musicians who skillfully play traditional Chinese instruments; the time- honored Chinese music coalesces with high-tech special effects and awe-inspiring acrobatic feats, creating an exuberant entertainment event with the festive pageantry of a Chinese Carnival.

The Peking Acrobats

Founded in 2011, Ventanas interweaves flamenco, Sephardic and Balkan music and dance, and their own original compositions. They have released three albums (2013, 2015, 2019) and have toured extensively throughout North America, including a sold-out show at the Skirball Centre in Los Angeles in 2019. They have been nominated for four Canadian Folk Music Awards, including Best Traditional Singer and Best Ensemble. The six-piece Toronto-based world music ensemble is fronted by Jewish-Indigenous  powerhouse vocalist and dancer Tamar Ilana, and features the city’s finest world musicians. They perform in over 20 languages such as Ladino, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Hebrew, French, Romani and Arabic, drawing inspiration from today’s worldwide themes of migration and the questioning of one’s identity.

Tamar Ilana + Ventanas

On her forthcoming record, Rose Cousins holds our hands as she guides us on a journey through the “conditions of love”.

Rose Cousins

Carabosse, ruler of the underworld, the Roots, Weeds and Thorns, and the Lilac Fairy, ruler of the upper world with its Flowers, Sky and Sun, struggle with the memories of an impossible love. Neither can live in the space of the other but, united through a child whom they each struggle to possess, a beautiful new blossom is formed.

Ballet Jörgen: Sleeping Beauty

Attention all ABBA fans! Circle May 1, 2025 on your calendars because ABRA Cadabra, Vancouver’s renowned ABBA Tribute band, is coming for Saint John! This is an unmissable, family-friendly event suitable for all ages, featuring a dynamic live band, stunning vocals, captivating dancers, and authentic costumes. Prepare for an interactive stage extravaganza that will have you dancing, singing along, and reliving the magic of ABBA’s greatest hits including Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen, Take A Chance, SOS, Waterloo, Fernando, and many more!

ABRA Cadabra – A Tribute to ABBA

Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley & George Strait — imagine a concert with these four country music icons together on one stage, at the same time… the COUNTRY BOYS show will bring you there! Featuring Scott Delhunty, Gerald Delhunty, Marc Babin, Daniel Goguen, and five other musicians, you’ll hear most of their timeless hits, including: “Chattahoochee”, “Friends in Low Places”, “The Fireman” and “Mud on the Tires”. This will definitely be an evening for the 90s country music fan in you!

COUNTRY BOYS: A Tribute to Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley & George Strait

Matt Dusk is one of Canada’s most beloved male vocalists, forging a career in music that has resulted in fourteen critically-acclaimed studio albums and sold over one million albums world wide.

Matt Dusk sings Tony Bennett

Bobcaygeon is a tribute to The Tragically Hip, delivering a high-quality performance with a sound strikingly similar to the Hip’s studio recordings. Their show is designed to capture the interest of like-minded Hip fans, while honouring and respecting The Tragically Hip and Gord’s unique performance. Come sing along to all your favorite hits – Ahead by a Century, Wheat Kings, Little Bones, Courage, and so many more! Don’t miss out on this epic celebration of Canadian rock music! Grab your friends and get ready! Happy hour is here!

Bobcaygeon: A Tribute to the Tragically Hip

Home is where the heart is, and Symphony NB appeals to both with the help of Dvorak’s magnificent 7th symphony. / Guest Artist: Christina Haldane, soprano

Symphony New Brunswick: Homeland

A fresh take on the classic that spurred Hitchcock’s cinematic genius. Mystery enthusiasts, brace yourselves for a thrilling journey into deception and intrigue like you’ve never experienced before!

Saint John Theatre Company: Dial M for Murder

Symphony NB closes out the season in fiery fashion with special guests Twin Flames

Symphony New Brunswick: Twin Flames

Martin Levac continues the journey into the combined universe of Phil Collins & Genesis in a new show! Phil Collins & Genesis… Live makes you relive the great songs that accompanied the most beautiful moments of your life! From the intimate to the universal, he takes us into the soundtrack of his life, which is also ours… It’s a real journey through time, from the beginnings of Genesis to the great popular hits of Phil Collins. Surrounded by his faithful musicians, he shows us how this music has marked and transformed his life and career.

Martin Levac: Phil Collins & Genesis… Live

VaughnCo Entertainment is proud to present “Rumours” The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac tribute show based in Los Angeles, California. The group recreates the legendary band in its youthful heyday from 1975-1979. “It’s been said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I say THANK YOU!”- Richard Dashut, Record Producer – Fleetwood Mac albums including Rumours, Tusk, Live, Mirage, Tango In The Night, and Time.

Back By Popular Demand RUMOURS: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show

Get the electrifying concert experience of Tina Turner with this full stage production brimming with Tina hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s. Featuring the powerful, raspy vocals and thrilling stage presence of Caroline Borole live on stage, complete with band, brass section, backing vocalists and dancers to make this the definitive tribute, and a fabulous fun night out! Hear all the energetic Rock and soulful RnB hits that made Tina one of the 20th century’s biggest names in music – Simply the Best, What’s Love Got to Do With It, River Deep Mountain High, Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, We Don’t Need Another Hero, What You Get is What You See, Private Dancer and many more.

TINA The ultimate Tribute to the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Travel through time – From early Ed Sullivan to Let it be, you’ll get all the hits. Experience this live Beatles show through all eras of their career, performed on stage by The Liverpool 4 with the same high energy, impeccable musicianship, showmanship, fun and humour. The Liverpool 4, Canada’s Tribute to The Beatles have been delighting audiences for nearly two decades with their live high energy performance. They have performed thousands of shows across North America including appearances on Global TV’s morning show, Maple Leaf Gardens, Universal Pictures, Massey Hall as well as countless theaters and festivals. It must be experienced to be believed. Come together and sing and dance along, clap your hands, stomp your feet, or just rattle your jewelry!

Saint John Beatlemania!

Direct from Australia, Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic is back by popular demand! The show is set to again immerse fans in the spectacle, grandeur and extravagance of Queen and Freddie Mercury, but with incredible new star Dominic Warren on board, things are looking bigger and better than ever! Get ready for a night of non-stop Rock anthems including We Will Rock You, We Are the Champions, Radio GaGa, I Want to Break Free, Somebody to Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, Another One Bites the Dust, A Kind of Magic, Bohemian Rhapsody and so many more. You’ve seen Bohemian Rhapsody at the cinemas, now see it all come alive on stage and in concert, with big sound, big screens, crazy lighting and outlandish costumes… the REAL ROCK EXPERIENCE!

Queen: It’s a Kinda Magic

Prepare to be amazed! The extraordinary showman Jason Cyrus is back, bringing you Beyond Limits, the hottest stage hypnosis show in Canada. Having mesmerized audiences across the country, Jason delivers a high-energy spectacle that will leave you spellbound.

Jason Cyrus LIVE – Beyond Limits – An Evening of Wonder and Awakening

VaughnCo Entertainment is proud to present the most outstanding Bee Gees Tribute show. Bee Gees Revisited is the ultimate tribute to the Bee Gees. Come and experience the sound, the harmonies, and the beautiful falsetto voices of the brothers Gibb. Performing with a full band the show recreates the Bee Gees 1998 Las Vegas appearance live. The costumes, the music, and the atmosphere is as close to the real thing as you can get. The show suspends belief as it weaves through hit after hit from their classic 60s catalogue to the groove of their 70s disco era hits that made the band a worldwide sensation. Dance and sing along to hits like Stayin Alive, Night Fever, Massachusetts, Tragedy, You Should Be Dancing, and Nights on Broadway. All performed note for note by award-winning vocalists Colum Henry, Dave Lafame, and Aaron Solomon. This international touring act has played to sold out, standing ovation audiences throughout North America. So put on your white suits, sequin dresses, boogie shoes, and get ready to sing and dance the night away with Bee Gees Revisited. If you are a Bee Gees fan, this show is a must see!

Bee Gees Revisited

TIME WARP PROMOTIONS PRESENTS HELLS BELLS. Formed in Toronto in 1994, Hells Bells is the world’s longest touring tribute to AC/DC. Performing thousands of concerts across North America. After 50 years, AC/DC has defined the sound of rock’n’roll and music of generations. Hells Bells delivers that sound, look and attitude, from the wall of Marshall amps to the signature schoolboy outfit. This is a high energy show you don’t want to miss!

Hells Bells – Celebrating the Music of AC/DC

The music of Fleetwood Mac is recognized and loved by many, young and old(ish) alike. Songs such as “Dreams”, “Go Your Own Way”, “Rhiannon” “Don’t Stop”, “The Chain”, and “Edge of 17” bring memories flooding back. Experiencing the band GYPSY is truly a musically authentic event.

GYPSY: Premiere Fleetwood Mac Tribute

Sandman, the world’s only Metallica-sanctioned tribute band, has been blowing audiences away internationally since 1994. Band members Rick Van Dyk (lead vocals and lead/rythm guitar), Joe Di Taranto (lead/rhythm guitar and vocals), Paulo Fonseca (bass and vocals), Brent Nicmi (drums) collectively have a lifetime of experience playing and recording with recognized bands such as Helix, Honeymoon Suite, Headstones, Anvil, War Machine, as well as Classic Albums Live & many more! After a curious series of events in early 2016, the members of Metallica gave Sandman their blessing to pay tribute to their music, resulting in a momentous meeting at Toronto’s famed Opera House in November 2016.

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Mar 25, 2025

Och & Oy!: A Considered Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro

Mar 28, 2025

Duane Andrews and the Hot Club of Conception Bay featuring Ray Legere

Apr 10, 2025

Symphony New Brunswick: Fauré’s Requiem

Apr 12, 2025

The Peking Acrobats

Apr 16, 2025

Tamar Ilana + Ventanas

19 - 22 Mar, 2025

Saint John Theatre Company: Lend Me a Tenor

Mar 15, 2025

Chris Funk – Redefining Wonder

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