🏒 Sens playoff tickets go on sale to the public Friday. Season ticket holders can snag tickets on Thursday. Tickets are limited to four per person. – Ottawa Senators

🎞️ The Museum of History will be closing its CINÉ+ big screen in June. The cinema used to be an IMAX theatre but is now a giant 4K flat screen and is billed as the ‘biggest and brightest’ in the region. The Museum has not said what it will do with the space. – Willam Eltherington at CTV

🚌 OC Transpo will refurbish 30 old buses rather than tossing them out. The 30 are of the articulated type and have exceeded their expected 15-year lifespan. OC Transpo says they will be used as backup in case of disruptions in service. – Aedan Helmer in the Ottawa Citizen

⚕️ A new HART Hub has opened in Bells Corners. The Homelessness and Addiction Recovery Treatment centre is the second one in Ottawa and intended to provide all emcompassing mental health and addictions care. The provincial government has been closing safe-injection sites across Ontario is favour of HART Hubs.  – Anchal Sharma at CBC

 

🐴 There are up to nine foals at the Musical Ride’s farm in Pakenham that need names, says the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Kids 14 years and younger are asked to submit names that start with ‘C’ for consideration. Deadline is April 24.– Royal Canadian Mounted Police

TUESDAY

• The Ottawa 67s head into Game 3, Round Two of the 2026 OHL Playoffs. (Lansdowne) 

• It’s 1595. A pair of playwright brothers struggle to write a hit as William Shakespeare dominates the theatre scene. Then, a soothsayer tells the bros to write a musical and all hell breaks loose.  Glebe Neighbourhood Activities Group presents Something Rotten! today through Sunday April 19 at Glebe Community Centre.  

• National Arts Centre English Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and fu-GEN Asian Theatre Company present the world premiere of cicadas, an eco-thriller that began as a an Irresistible Neighbourhoods radio play. Until Sunday at the NAC's Azrieli Studio. (Downtown)  

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Palestine 36, Somewhere Along The Way - Film & Concert, The Drama 

• Mayfair Theatre: H Is For Hawk, Mioirs No. 3, Taxi Driver 

Gigs

• John Hanson with Dave Scobie. Le Hibou (La Pêche)

• Sara Devoe, Bug Crush, Hanorah. Avant-Garde Bar. 

• Greg Rekus. Dominion Tavern

WEDNESDAY

• Songwriting phenom Royal Wood is touring with Newfoundland’s contemporary folk duo The Fortunate Ones on the Have A Heart tour. (Downtown)  

• Ottawa’s ONLY Hip Hop Jam is a monthly open mic series at Red Bird featuring a live band, emcee, and instruments. Access to the stage is first come, first served. Tonight (April 15) Ottawa-based melodic rap artist NTHN will also perform. (Old Ottawa South) 

• Ottawa Festivals Network turns 30, holds its annual general meeting, and throws in a gig by The Hoarse Men. Overflow Brewing (Heron Gate)    

• 🆓 The Doors Open for Music at Southminster United Church noon concert features violinist Albert Steinberger and pianist Dane Ko, prizewinners of the 2023 Prix Ravel, in their Canadian debut. The two perform a program of French and German sonatas, including their acclaimed interpretation of Ravel’s ‘Blues’.  (Old Ottawa South) 

• Ottawa Little Theatre stages Kimberley Akimbo, the dark comedy about a 16 year old coping with a less than perfect family as well as a life changing disease. Until Sunday April 18. (Rideau-Vanier)   

• Something Rotten! Continues at Glebe Community Centre  

• cicadas continues at the NAC.   

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: The Drama, National Canadian Film Day: Bon Cop Bad Cop, National Canadian Film Day 2026: Les Furies     

• Mayfair Theatre:  Miroirs No. 3, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Tiger on the Beat   

Gigs

• The John Carroll Show. The Laff

• Death Hawk. Dominion Tavern

• Krystal Jessup, Ness Nost, Al Sam, Natasha Liard, Baby Richman. Irene’s Pub

• Bella Donna. Rainbow Bistro

THURSDAY

• The Ottawa 67s head into Game 4, Round Two of the 2026 OHL Playoffs.  (Lansdowne)  

• Ottawa’s Spring Shopping event is back April 16-19 at the Originals Spring Craft Sale. Find Made in Canada treasures for your home, pantry, and wardrobe as you visit more than 150 vendors. EY Centre (YOW) 

• Ottawa Film Society is the oldest in Canada, currently in its 91st year of screenings. Tonight the Society is screening All Stirred Up (Tous Toquès), a Canadian comedy from 2024, and Flow, both at the Mayfair Theatre. (Old Ottawa South)

• Be inspired and dazzled by the Ottawa Rock N’ Gem Show today through Saturday at EY Centre (YOW) 

• Creepy eco-thriller cicadas continues at National Arts Centre  (Downtown)  

Cinema

• ByTowne Cinema: Palestine 36, The Drama, Limited Edition: A History of Violence 

• Mayfair Theatre: H Is For Hawk 

Gigs

• Meshenka, Kim & Dro, Runner-Up. LIVE on Elgin

• Fotocrime, Unwell, Ultra Love. SAW Centre

• Pinksnail. House of TARG

• Mairi. Rainbow Bistro

• The Deserves. Night Oat

JUST ANNOUNCED

• 🆓 Dance fans will have a rare opportunity to learn from the National Ballet of Canada’s RBC Apprentices on Saturday April 25. (Downtown) 

• You’ll walk away with not one, but two keepsakes for yourself or as gifts (a teacup candle and a bud vase with a dried flower arrangement) at Cup of Intention's Mother’s Day Floral + Pour workshop on Sunday May 10. (Stittsville)