Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Casting This past week, over one hundred local amateurs and professionals from seven years old to seventy auditioned for the musical THE SECRET GARDEN and the comedy CLUE, of which we cast only…

Act Now – Auditions This Month at The PAC! The PAC is holding ProAm auditions for the classic comedy caper CLUE and the musical based on a classic, THE SECRET GARDEN June 16-19, and we invite everyone to come play…

Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Articulating the Vision Last month I shared how putting together a vision board helped me focus possible design elements into a cohesive vision for our upcoming production of The Secret Garden. The next…

Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Focusing the Vision It’s good to try new things. So for our upcoming production of The Secret Garden, I decided to try my hand at creating a vision board to organize my ideas,…

Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Costuming Hello all! I’m Bart’s wife, Allison, and I’m taking over Bart’s Blog to share the beginnings of our costume plans for The PAC’s September ProAm musical, The Secret Garden. For me, the…

What Is Cultural Equity and Why Is It Important at The PAC? Now that The Skin of Our Teeth has closed and our season is winding down, my focus has shifted to The PAC’s cultural equity plan. “What’s that?” you…

Now’s the time to make a resolution and a reservation! As we look back on the year past, we resolve to do better and achieve more. These same aspirations are at the heart of this month’s PAC ProAm dramedy, The…

Trimming the Tree In expectation of the PAC staff and volunteers dropping by next week, Allison and I spent the weekend trimming the trees at home. We don’t do anything extraordinary. It’s not like we have a dozen individually themed…

Credit Where Credit Is Due When someone thanks me for all I do at the PAC, I let them know that I don’t do it alone and that what we accomplish at the PAC wouldn’t happen without tremendous help. So,…

When it comes to celebrating success, I fail. When was the last time I took time to acknowledge (let alone celebrate) my accomplishments or the successes of those with whom I work? As a Director, I spend much of my…