Saturday, May 3 was a BUSY day here at The Purchase PAC. It was Alumni Weekend on campus. We had performances in three of our theatres, a luncheon in the fourth, and an Alumni Showcase fair taking place in the [...]
We're looking forward to presenting bass virtuoso and recent Grammy winner Edgar Meyer with genre-crossing Kentucky-born violinist Tessa Lark and eclectic cellist Joshua Roman here at The Purchase PAC on Sunday, November 17. In anticipation, we posed a few questions [...]
Performance collective Manual Cinema (and all of their luggage) will arrive at Purchase later this month, to share their production of Frankenstein with us on Sunday, October 20. In anticipation, we reached out to Drew Dir, Co-Artistic Director, Frankenstein Lead [...]
Ever wonder what goes on behind the curtain during a live performance? In the new series Bringing Backstage Forward our Production Team invites you into their world, sharing insights and tricks of the trade via blog posts, videos, interviews, and [...]
Theater is a magical place full of wonder and mystery – and superstitions. Some of these have been around for centuries, and are taken VERY seriously backstage. Here are just a few… Break a Leg! This is one of the [...]
Backstage with Christy Havard, Director of Production As we all know dressing rooms are for actors, dancers, and all other artists to change into their costumes, study their lines, shower, rest and relax between scenes or pieces. Well, I thought [...]
When I started here at The Purchase PAC back in the 2004-2005 season , most of our counterweight fly systems still had manila (hemp) hand lines in their operating system and hemp for the breasting / pick lines. Over the [...]
