Experience

Experience something real. Each year, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College presents a season of performances by world-class professional artists, offering chamber music, jazz, popular music, contemporary dance, and family programming. Click the heading or photo to get tickets and learn more about upcoming events at The Purchase PAC.

Engage

Through our Education & Engagement programs, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College is committed to providing a fully immersive, educational arts experience for all ages. Click the heading or photo above to learn more.

Facility Rentals

The Purchase PAC’s theatres, lobby areas, and support spaces are available as facility rentals for high-quality musical recordings, technical rehearsals, film and TV shoots, and community events. Our spaces can be adapted in a myriad of ways to suit your needs. Click the heading or photo to learn more.

Give

Keep the arts and your home for extraordinary experiences thriving! Make a 100% tax-deductible donation today. Click the heading or photo to make your gift today.

The PAC News & Notes

The Purchase PAC 2025-2026 Season

(June 30, 2025) Our 2025-2026 Center Series of world-class performing arts events will begin in October of 2025. The season will feature a broad range of events that celebrate the incredible inventiveness and diversity of American artists and art forms, and the ideals that have nurtured and sparked such broad-ranging creativity. In addition to the performances themselves, there will be multiple opportunities for creative encounters and audience engagement. Tickets will go on sale Monday, July 21. Read or download the season press release here.

About The Purchase PAC

For over forty years, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, PURCHASE COLLEGE (The Purchase PAC), a four-theatre complex located on the campus of Purchase College, SUNY, has been the hub of a creative community that brings together internationally acclaimed artists, rising stars, creative practitioners, and an inspirational array of loyal patrons and friends in a celebration of the performing arts. It is this mix of artistry and friendship that has forged The Purchase PAC’s legacy as the apex of the performing arts in our region – and it is the same bond that sustains us. Learn more about The Purchase PAC.

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