Since our season began in early October 2025, The Purchase PAC’s theaters have been ringing with the sound of "Bravo!" While we have some of the warmest audiences in the region — and I know this from the many conversations [...]
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 [...]
With just a few days to go until arranger, composer, producer, director, and musician extraordinaire Rob Mathes returns to The Purchase PAC to rock the house with his annual holiday concert, we caught up with him to chat about the [...]
On Saturday, November 4, 2023 The Purchase PAC presented LA-based contemporary dance company Bodytraffic. We were super excited to learn that one of the dancers, Alana Jones, is a Purchase College Conservatory of Dance alum. We love it when alums [...]
To experience something real is to expect the unexpected — a musical phrase that ignites your imagination, a dance piece that offers a fresh perspective, an encounter with an old friend in the lobby. At The Purchase PAC, a myriad [...]
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has been a regular and beloved presence on our stages for decades. They return to The Purchase PAC on January 22, 2023 with Change the Frame, a program of works by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, and Hanna Benn, featuring [...]
The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College is more than just a building with four stages, more than just a place for professional artists to perform and move on to their next gig. It is a creative hub, an artistic learning [...]
The Facilities Rentals page of our website proudly proclaims: “There is no better place for tech.” Most of us have heard the expression “tech rehearsal” or “the show is in tech,” but what exactly does this mean? Christy Havard, Director [...]
(February 2022) Speaking at the opening plenary of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference recently, Ben Cameron, President of the Jerome Foundation, said that “the lasting impact of the last 22 months may not lie solely in our artistic [...]
As we come to the end of 2021, I’m sure we’ll all agree that it was a year with many challenges. But among the frustrations of the last twelve months are many wonderful memories that remind me that The PAC [...]
