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Name: The Performing Arts Center
Address: 735 Anderson Hill Rd, Purchase, NY, 10577, US
Telephone: +19142516200
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The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, a four-theatre complex, is the major professional, non-profit arts presenter in the Southeastern New York--Southwestern Connecticut region, and the largest program in the SUNY system. Each theatre is specifically designed for the optimum presentation of a different type of performance, enabling the presentation of any kind of event. The Center presents

a broad range of performances that engage, challenge, and educate as well as entertain, offering music, dance and theatre to audiences from Westchester and the surrounding communities. Music presenting features leading artists of our time as well as emerging artists; as the major regional presenter of dance, programs have included only area appearances of several important traditional, contemporary, and folkloric companies; theatre presentations reflect a deep commitment to presenting innovative ensembles. The Center’s on-going initiatives also encompass artist partnerships, residency activities, and commissions; creating opportunities for students to participate in the artistic process; increasing educational opportunities in the arts for k -12 students and multi-generational learners; and revitalizing efforts in the community to make the arts more accessible to broad and diverse audiences.

07/24/2024

We're pretty excited about being named Westchester's best professional theatre by the readers of Westchester Magazine. Look for us at the Best of Westchester Party tonight. We'll be up on the 2nd floor and we'd love to have you drop by and say hi!

07/19/2024

Who's the best theatre (professional) in Westchester? We are!

Thanks to everyone who voted for us, and congrats to all our fellow 'best of' winners! We look forward to seeing you at the Best of Westchester Party next week.

These Best of Westchester winners offer a medley of fun and leisure experiences, from art and music to classes and trivia.

07/16/2024

Tickets for our 2024-2025 season have been on sale for two weeks now! Fan favorites so far: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, David Sedaris, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Samara Joy.

What's on your must-see list?

To view listings and secure your seats: https://www.artscenter.org/events/

07/10/2024

Welcome NYO Jazz !

07/01/2024

Today is the day! Tickets for 2024-2025 events go on sale today, July 1, at 10am. Buy early and secure the best seats.

Experience Something Real at The Purchase PAC
https://www.artscenter.org/events/

Pictured: Dance Theatre of Harlem (c) Theik Smith

07/01/2024

Help us welcome jazz singer extraordinaire Samara Joy back to her alma mater this fall!

Tickets for Samara Joy and all other 2024-2025 events will go on sale tomorrow, July 1, at 10am.

Experience Something Real at The Purchase PAC.
https://www.artscenter.org/events/

06/30/2024

You will see the world differently after taking in a performance at The Purchase PAC - our shared home for extraordinary experiences, a place where artists come to collaborate and create, students come to hone their craft, and audiences come to find inspiration and connection.

Experience something real this season.
Tickets for our 2024-2025 events will go on sale July 1.
https://www.artscenter.org/events/

05/17/2024

Did you know that May is National Chamber Music Month?

That makes this the perfect time to announce that The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will be back at The Purchase PAC next season with a three-concert series featuring CMS artists in exquisite performances that will delight and inspire. All three concerts will feature a pre-show Artist Talk, allowing you to deepen your relationship with the music.

Learn more here: https://ow.ly/hPr750RJSt9

CMS photo (c) CherylynnTsushima

05/06/2024

“There are studies that show that engaging with art lowers your cortisol level, and it reduces the stress hormones that are released into your body,” says Adrienne Hundley, head of service development and delivery at the Atlanta-based Art Pharmacy.

Who couldn't use a little stress reduction these days?

In some places, doctors can even "prescribe" art to help with anxiety and depression.

05/01/2024

This month's Culture Picks blog post is a mixed bag with a celebratory theme. Don’t we all need something to smile about these days?

Read it here: https://ow.ly/etfi50Ru6a8

Pictured: NYO-USA musicians on our Concert Hall stage (c) Chris Lee Photography

04/19/2024

Purchase here they come! Judging by this post-show selfie taken last night in Michigan, it looks like The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center String Magic artists Bella Hristova, Timothy Ridout, Chad Hoopes, Matthew Lipman, and Sihao He are enjoying their tour. Come and see their smiling faces right here at The Purchase PAC tomorrow night, when they'll take you on a journey through the astounding breadth of chamber music repertoire for strings.

Tickets are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-string-magic/

04/15/2024

Feeling a bit sleepy this afternoon? We are here to help with Monday Music! Enjoy the rousing fourth movement of Mendelssohn's Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 87, IV. Allegro molto vivace, performed by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artists Paul Huang, Sean Lee, violin; Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, viola; Paul Watkins, cello.

You'll be able to hear this piece live on Saturday when CMS presents "String Magic" here at The PAC. Tickets are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-string-magic/

Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on February 21, 2017.
Video produced by Ibis Productions.

Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on February 21, 2017.Video produced by Ibis Productions.Artists: Paul Huang, Sean Lee, violin; Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipma...

04/09/2024

What was the young Beethoven like?
How did his mind work?
And how is his music like a film by Alfred Hitchcock?

Composer and radio personality Bruce Adolphe will answer these questions and more on April 17, when Inside Chamber Music comes to The Purchase PAC. Join us as we explore Beethoven’s String Trio in E-flat, Op. 3.

Tickets are on sale now: https://www.artscenter.org/events/inside-chamber-music-with-bruce-adolphe/

04/08/2024

For Monday Music today, what could be more appropriate than an eclipse playlist? Enjoy and stay safe while taking it in.

There are the obvious options (Soundgarden, Bonnie Tyler and Pink Floyd,) plus some celestially coded jams that are unexpectedly fitting for your viewing adventures.

04/06/2024

Contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham returned to their roots on the Purchase College, SUNY campus this week in preparation for tonight's performance. During a break from tech and rehearsals A.I.M founder and Artistic Director Kyle Abraham and choreographer Rena Bulter, both Purchase College Conservatory of Dance alums, sat down with Provost Earnest Lamb to talk about their work, their artistic journeys, and, of course, their time at Purchase.

Kyle Abraham is the Artistic Director and Founder of contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham. Rena Bulter is a renowned artist, dance educator, and ...

04/06/2024

Attention Purchase College, SUNY students-
It's an A.I.M/Purchase takeover!
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham is returning to its roots tomorrow night, April 6, with unforgettable talent, world premieres by Purchase College alums Rena Butler and Keerati Jinakunwiphat, and the iconic artistry of founder and Purchase alum Kyle Abraham.

Get your $10 student rush tickets before the show on Saturday, April 6, from 6:30-7:30pm at The PAC box office.

04/02/2024

There seems to be an endless supply of noteworthy accomplishments by Purchase College, SUNY alums this year! We highlight a few of them in this month’s Culture Picks, alongside Purchase PAC event listings and recommendations for what to watch online during all those April showers. Enjoy!

https://www.artscenter.org/2024/04/culture-picks-april-2024/

Pictured: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Keerati Jinakunwiphat’s Someday Soon (c) Alexander Diaz

03/26/2024

When it comes to dance, The Purchase PAC is on the cutting edge.

Doug Varone and Dancers To My Arms / Restore had its first performance here on March 16. Read Carla Escoda's review in Bachtrack via the link below.

And coming up on April 6, experience two more premieres, this time from choreographers Rena Butler and Keerati Jinakunwiphat, performed by the consistently excellent A.I.M by Kyle Abraham.

Say you saw it here first.

A gripping, if occasionally puzzling, evening from Doug Varone. Stunning even with recorded music. And next weekend the music will be live!

03/25/2024

For today's Monday Music, we offer Beethoven's String Trio in E-flat major for Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 3

This was Beethoven’s first string ensemble work, modeled after Mozart’s famous Divertimento for String Trio (K.563) of 1788, and it brought the young Beethoven international attention.

Join us here at The Purchase PAC to explore this work in greater depth during the Inside Chamber Music lecture on April 17, and hear it live as part of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center "String Magic" concert on April 20. Event details and tickets are available on our website: https://www.artscenter.org/events/inside-chamber-music-with-bruce-adolphe/

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in th...

03/20/2024

Low ticket alert!
There are only about 50 tickets left for this Sunday's Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Sing & Swing: The Great American Songbook. Featuring Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III, two of NYC's brightest young jazz artists, performing songs by Gershwin, Ellington, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and more.

What are you waiting for?

Get tickets on our website:
https://www.artscenter.org/events/jazz-at-lincoln-center-presents-sing-swing/

Pictured: Benny Benack III and Bria Skonberg (c) Perry Bindelglass

03/18/2024

Monday Music...
Wake up! It's Bria Skonberg, recorded live at KNKX Studios back in 2018.

Skonberg will be performing here on March 24, headlining Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Sing & Swing with Benny Benack III. This show is just about sold out but you can still score some good seats in the balcony if you hurry. https://www.artscenter.org/events/jazz-at-lincoln-center-presents-sing-swing/

Bria Skonberg returned to the KNKX Studios and with a talented group of musicians treated our studio audience to a wonderful performance filled with new orig...

03/15/2024

Say you saw it here first.
On March 16, Doug Varone and Dancers will present an exclusive first performance of To My Arms / Restore at The Purchase PAC - and we've got $10 tickets for Purchase College, SUNY students!

Student rush tickets will be available at the box office on Saturday 6:30-7:30pm only, with a valid MORE card.

To My Arms/Restore is an evening-long two-part work that embodies Varone’s choreographic fascination with the interplay of the deeply emotional and the immensely physical. To My Arms (Part 1) is a suite of eleven dances set to operatic arias by Georg Fredric Handel, evoking a strange otherworld of intimacy. Restore (Part 2) is driven by the 21st-century sound of Festival Voices and Nico Bentley’s Handel Remixed, which fuses Handel’s Dixit Dominus with beats more commonly heard in clubs around the globe. The result is a marriage between a score and a dance that is unabashedly glorious. Experience it!

03/15/2024

A Friday morning flashback...
In early 2020, choreographer Doug Varone spent two weeks on campus, creating a new work that was to premiere at The PAC on March 28, 2020, featurinig students from the Conservatory of Dance as well as members of his own company, Doug Varone and Dancers. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to stop, and the premiere did not take place. Fortunatley, we did have some rehearsal footage, and used it to put together this brief behind-the-scenes video.

Enjoy the video, and then come join us tomorrow to see Doug Varone's newer new work, To My Arms/ Restore. Tickets are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/doug-varone-and-dancers/

In early 2020, choreographer Doug Varone, an alumnus of Purchase College, spent two weeks on campus, creating a new work that was to premiere at The PAC on M...

03/13/2024

We cannot wait to welcome Kyle and A.I.M by Kyle Abraham back to Purchase! Good seats are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/a-i-m-by-kyle-abraham/

03/12/2024

We're definitely on board for a "Best Choreography" category.

2024 was a big year for dance at the Oscars, including a history-making performance, a heart-pumping ensemble number, and a surprise addition to the “In Memor

03/08/2024

Join us on March 16 as Doug Varone and Dancers present an exclusive one-night-only performance of Varone's newest work "To My Arms / Restore" for The Purchase PAC community, one week before the NYC premiere.

Learn more: https://t.e2ma.net/webview/ceekpi/3c65a969e72d4c054351e043ea305cf5

Pictured: Doug Varone and Dancers: Daeyana Moss, Thryn Saxon & Joniece Jo Jo Boykins (c) Erin Baiano

03/06/2024

Congratulations to all the recent award winners with connections to Purchase College, SUNY!
In this month's Culture Picks, we shine a spotlight on their achievements, and highlight some of our upcoming events.

Take a look! https://www.artscenter.org/2024/03/culture-picks-march-2024/

Pictured: Nicole Zuraitis accepts her Grammy Award (c) Rich Polk / Billboard / Getty

03/04/2024

Monday afternoons can be rough, so here's some jazzy Monday Music to get you through the rest of the day - the title track from trumpeter/vocalist Benny Benack III's debut album "One of a Kind," music & lyrics by Benny Benack III.

Like what you hear? Catch Benny live on March 24 when we present "Sing & Swing," a Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS production. Tickets are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/jazz-at-lincoln-center-presents-sing-swing/

https://www.bennybenackjazz.comhttps://www.instagram.com/bbjazziiihttps://www.facebook.com/bennybenackjazzhttps://www.twitter.com/Bbjazziii...The title track...

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Leave the daily grind behind and let the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center take you on an astounding journey through the breadth of chamber music repertoire for strings - Saturday, April 20 - Get tickets: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-string-magic/

Inside Chamber Music - April 17

What was the young Beethoven like? How did his mind work? And how is his music like a film by Alfred Hitchcock? Composer and radio personality Bruce Adolphe will answer these questions and more on April 17, when Inside Chamber Music comes to The Purchase PAC. Join us as we explore Beethoven’s String Trio in E-flat, Op. 3. Tickets are on sale now: https://www.artscenter.org/events/inside-chamber-music-with-bruce-adolphe/

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham Kyle Abraham MotorRover Coming to The Purchase PAC on April 6. Tickets: https://www.artscenter.org/events/a-i-m-by-kyle-abraham/ (Filmed by Nel Shelby Productions)

A.I.M in Process Rena Butler Shell of a Shell of The Shell Coming to The Purchase PAC on April 6. Tickets: https://www.artscenter.org/events/a-i-m-by-kyle-abraham/ (Filmed By Dancing Camera) #AIM #AIMbyKyleAbraham #KyleAbraham #RenaButler #dance #newdance #newchoreography #contemporarydance #danceatPurchase #PurchasePAC #PurchaseCollege #purchasealum #proofofPurchase @A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

Here's a little preview of what's to come in January when the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to The Purchase PAC with "Extraordinary Imaginations." Tickets and info: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-extraordinary-imaginations/

The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert 30th Anniversary weekend begins TOMORROW! Here's a little preview to get you in the spirit. Like what you see? Good seats are still available, even a very few in the front two rows...but I wouldn't wait much longer to grab 'em. TICKETS: https://www.artscenter.org/events/the-rob-mathes-holiday-concert/ @RobMathesMusic @RobMathes #purchasePAC #PurchaseCollege #SUNYPurchase #purchaseNY #greenwichCT #holidaymusic #holidayconcert #jinglebells #robmathes Video recording by Bob Conover of Rob Mathes & the band performing "Jingle Bell Blues" 2021 virtual concert Recorded at First Congregational Church of Greenwich

Rob Mathes: Jingle Bell Blues

It's time for Monday Music, and since we are just a few short days away from The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert 30th Anniversary weekend, here's a little preview to get you in the spirit. Like what you see? Good seats are still available, but I wouldn't wait much longer... https://www.artscenter.org/events/the-rob-mathes-holiday-concert/ Rob Mathes & the band performing "Jingle Bell Blues" 2021 virtual concert Recorded at First Congregational Church of Greenwich Video recording by Bob Conover

Rob Mathes Ring Them Bells 2021

Are you ready for some Monday Music? Here's Rob Mathes and the band performing Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" during the 2021 virtual concert, recorded at First Congregational Church of Greenwich. (Video recording by Bob Conover.) This year Rob performs his annual holiday concert LIVE, right here at The Purchase PAC on Dec 15, 16 & 17. Tickets are going fast! https://www.artscenter.org/events/the-rob-mathes-holiday-concert/

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's annual concert series at The Purchase PAC begins this month, on October 21, with a program that celebrates the life and work of supreme virtuoso pianist and composer, Sergei Rachmaninov. See you there? https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-rachmaninov-the-composer/

Step Afrika! at The Purchase PAC on Saturday, September 23. "This is what it feels like to experience something real."

Celebrate spring! In just three weeks, world music sensation Angélique Kidjo will take the stage at The Purchase PAC. Do you have your tickets yet? http://ow.ly/JTIB50Nrr9R

CMS of Lincoln Center: Delight and Drama rehearsal and interview

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center artists are hard at work rehearsing for "Delight & Drama," a program of works for piano by Arensky and Brahms. Listen in as CMS Co-Artistic Director pianist Wu Han, Wu Qian, (piano), Bella Hristova, (violin) and Dmitri Atapine, (cello) chat about their preparations. We are looking forward to having them bring Lincoln Center to Purchase, NY on March 18! Good seats are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-delight-drama/

Gibney Company has emerged in the touring world with an extraordinary company of dancers and a stunning roster of world-famous choreographers making new works for the company. For tickets & program details about Gibney Company at The Purchase PAC on March 11, visit https://www.artscenter.org/events/gibney-company/

Rob Mathes Ring Them Bells

Guess who's coming to town? The Rob Mathes Holiday Concert returns to The Purchase PAC on December 16 & 17 after a three-year hiatus and we can't wait! Here's Rob Mathes and friends performing Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" during last's year's virtual concert, recorded in December 2021 at First Congregational Church of Greenwich. Video recording by Bob Conover. A VERY limited amount of tickets for the 2022 concerts are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/the-rob-mathes-holiday-concert/

CMS at The PAC: Conversations with Friends

Just a few days to go until The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to our Recital Hall stage. This time, the program focuses on the lifelong friendship between Schumann and Mendelssohn, and the music it inspired. Tickets are still available: https://www.artscenter.org/events/cms-of-lincoln-center-conversations-with-friends/

NYO2 Rehearses Florence Price's "Ethiopia's Shadow in America"

Watch as NYO2 rehearses Florence Price's "Ethiopia’s Shadow in America," led by Mei-Ann Chen Conductor in our very own Concert Hall. We love hearing music on that stage! Each summer, Carnegie Hall’s national youth ensembles bring together the brightest young American instrumentalists for intensive training and performances on some of the world’s greatest stages. All three programs are free and led by an all-star faculty of professional musicians, giving students the opportunity to hone their talents while working with the world’s finest artists. As national ensembles, these programs include a broad range of musicians from across the country that reflect the exceptional talent and diversity of the United States.