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The Purchase PAC presents a full season of world-class performing arts events running from October through May each year. Our 2026-2027 season celebrates community, creativity, and the joy that you feel when the curtain rises.

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October 13, 2026
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Treasure Island Reimagined: Jane Hawkins and the Pirate’s Gold

October 17, 3:00 pm

2026-2027, Family, Theatre, Youth

Treasure Island Reimagined: Jane Hawkins and the Pirate’s Gold is Jason Neulander’s newest “live-action graphic novel.” The year is 1754. The place, the western shores of Scotland. Jane Hawkins, twelve years old, works at a sleepy seaside inn. When a sinister vagabond arrives with a mysterious trunk, Jane’s humdrum life swerves towards adventure...

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Presidential Speaker Series: A Conversation with James Ortiz ’10

October 22, 7:00 pm

2026-2027, Lecture, Spoken Word

SUNY Purchase President Michael E. Steiper welcomes James Ortiz '10 for a wide-ranging discussion of his unique career trajectory from SUNY Purchase to Broadway and Hollywood. This event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required.

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CMS: An Evening with Brahms

October 24, 5:00 pm

2026-2027, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Music

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center begins their 4-concert series at The Purchase PAC with an evening of music by Czerny and Brahms.

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Selected Shorts 2026

October 25, 3:00 pm

2026-2027, Spoken Word, Theatre

Spellbinding short stories by both established and emerging writers take on new life when they are performed by stars of stage and screen. You've heard the hit public radio series and podcast, now experience Selected Shorts live right here at The Purchase PAC.

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Ballet Hispánico New York: CARMEN.maquia

October 30, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Dance

Suspenseful, passionate, and humorous, Ballet Hispánico New York's CARMEN.maquia is a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s beloved classic. The physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with nods to the Spanish paso doble and flamenco.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

October 30, 10:00 pm

2026-2027, Film

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure" and join us for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, probably the oddest, most off-the-wall cult film ever made, a kinky rock'n'roll science fiction horror satire that is everybody's favorite late-night show.

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Black Violin: The Be Free Tour

November 7, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Classical Crossover, Family, Music, Popular

Black Violin’s Be Free Tour is a high-energy, genre-defying experience that merges the duo’s classical training with the pulse of hip-hop, creating a performance that is a powerful and deeply inspiring celebration of individuality, creativity, and connection.

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The Hip Hop Nutcracker

November 14, 7:00 pm

2026-2027, Children, Contemporary Dance, Dance, Holiday, Youth

The Hip Hop Nutcracker, a holiday mash-up for the whole family, is a contemporary dance spectacle that re-mixes and re-imagines the classic, smashing hip hop dance and Tchaikovsky’s timeless music together into a heart-stirring and inspirational holiday event.

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Joshua Redman Quartet

November 21, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Jazz, Music

Joshua Redman is a Berkeley-born, Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and bandleader who has been a prominent figure in contemporary jazz for over 30 years. Redman's improvisational style blends post-bop tradition with advanced harmony and playful exploration.

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Songs of the Spirit: A Concert for Peace

December 5 – 6

2026-2027, Choral Music, Classical Crossover, Family, Holiday, Jazz, Music, Popular, Spoken Word, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theatre Arts, World

Songs of the Spirit: A Concert for Peace is an invitation to come together to ring in the season of light with a joyous community celebration of unity through global music, dance, and spoken word. A festive party with a holiday vibe, A Concert for Peace will feature a roster of extraordinary artists from around the globe sharing the stage with SUNY Purchase music, dance, and theatre students.

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The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert

December 19 – 20

2026-2027, Choral Music, Holiday, Music, Popular

The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert is a hallowed tradition for those who know, THE must-see show for music aficionados for more than 30 years. This high-energy evening of rock, jazz, blues, and choral music — original tunes and classics — rivals performances seen on the world’s best stages. Find out what all the buzz is about.

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Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Ocean Blue

January 23, 3:00 pm

2026-2027, Children, Family, Theatre

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia brings the epic underwater world of Ocean Blue to life through spectacular puppetry, immersive design, dynamic digital projection, and captivating original music.

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CMS: Great Clarinet Quintets

January 30, 5:00 pm

2026-2027, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Music

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center celebrates the clarinet in this program of works by Dvořák, Mozart, and Weber.

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Circa: The Art of Fugue

January 31, 5:00 pm

2026-2027, Cirque, Classical Music, Dance, Music

Dive into an extraordinary multi-artform experience where the meticulous intellect of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Art of Fugue meets the breath-taking physicality of contemporary acrobatics.

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SUNY Purchase Latin Jazz Festival Concert

February 12, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Jazz, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music

Celebrate Latin Jazz with the New York Latin Soul Orchestra, featuring Anthony Almonte, Ahmed Alom, and Yasser Tejeda. Opening the evening will be the SUNY Purchase Music & Technology Studio Programs Ensemble and the Purchase Latin Jazz Orchestra.

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A Night with Sergio Bernal

February 13, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Dance

Globally celebrated as “exhilarating and enchanting” (The Guardian), former Principal Dancer of the Ballet Nacional de España Sergio Bernal brings back his first evening-length program in the US to Purchase.

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Voices of Light

March 6, 7:00 pm

2026-2027, Film, Music, SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music

Voices of Light is a stunning evening of music and film that merges the legendary silent film masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc, widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra's live performance of a ravishing score by award-winning composer Richard Einhorn.

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Paul Taylor Dance Company

March 12, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Modern Dance

Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Purchase with a mixed repertory program that includes Paul Taylor's Mercuric and Roses, and Under the Rhythm by Resident Choroegrapher Robert Battle.

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CMS: String Radiance

March 13, 5:00 pm

2026-2027, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Music

This all-strings program from Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center features works by Boccherini, D'Ambrosio, and Dvořák.

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Opera on Tap: Looking at You

April 2 – 3, 2027

2026-2027, Music, Opera

Looking At You, a new techno-noir opera from Opera on Tap, is an immersive experience that confronts surveillance capitalism and the erosion of individual privacy in a digitized world.

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Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves Celebrate John Coltrane

April 3, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Jazz, Music

The Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves join forces to celebrate the legacy of one of jazz’s most transcendent voices, John Coltrane.

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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

April 16, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Chamber Music, Music, Orchestra

When the musicians of Orpheus focus their collective energies on Beethoven, Dvořák, Elena Ruehr, the result is the sonic equivalent of a 4K Ultra HD video, revealing latent details that have never come through so clearly. They have an ideal partner in violinist Paul Huang, a musician’s musician whose playing stands out as “unfailingly incisive and technically immaculate.” (Chicago Classical Review).

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A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

April 17, 7:30 pm

2026-2027, Contemporary Dance, Dance

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham has, for nearly two decades, been at the forefront of contemporary dance, becoming one of the most acclaimed touring companies in the world. Celebrating its 20th anniversary throughout 2026, the company exemplifies “lush movement, infectious music and magnetic dancers..." as noted by The New York Times.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: World on a String

April 18, 3:00 pm

2026-2027, Jazz, Music

Marking the 5th production in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents series, guest vocalists Kate Kortum and David Merino will debut arrangements of tunes from Broadway’s most beloved productions including Hamilton, Wicked, South Pacific, West Side Story, and more in a special concert event entitled World on a String: Swinging Songs of Broadway.

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CMS: Chausson’s Concerto

April 24, 5:00 pm

2026-2027, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Music

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center closes their 2026-2027 series at The Purchase PAC with a program that includes Mozart, Schubert, and Chausson's innovative masterpiece, his Concerto in D major for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet.

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Selected Shorts 2027

April 25, 3:00 pm

2026-2027, Spoken Word, Theatre

Spellbinding short stories by both established and emerging writers take on new life when they are performed by stars of stage and screen. You've heard the hit public radio series and podcast, now experience Selected Shorts live right here at The Purchase PAC.

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